Earlier, it was said that the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had a front row seat at President Trump’s inauguration and was the first to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Congress general secretary said, taking a dig at the government.”Mr Modi wooed Elon Musk and his family as well, at a time when Mr Musk was very close to President Trump. The wooing of Mr Musk was part of Mr Modi’s strategy to please President Trump.”Mr Modi has time and again flaunted his supposedly close friendship with President Trump. On Feb 14, 2025, he had shown off his knowledge of algebra by telling President Trump that MAGA + MIGA = MEGA,” the Congress general secretary said.He also said Prime Minister Modi kept completely quiet even as President Trump claimed “33 times” that he intervened to bring about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.”There was total silence from the PM and his close circle when President Trump hosted Pakistan’s chief of army staff Field Marshal Asim Munir to lunch on June 18, 2025, at the White House. This was the same person whose inflammatory and communally poisonous remarks provided the backdrop to the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, 2025.”President Trump has destroyed WTO. India did not protest. President Trump has withdrawn from WHO, UNESCO, and the Paris Climate Accord. India has remained a mute onlooker,” Ramesh said.Another Congress leader, Supriya Shrinate, said the 50 per cent tariff imposition is “disastrous for our economy, our exports, production, jobs.Mr Modi speak up — it’s time you do.”US President Trump on Wednesday slapped an additional 25 per cent tariff on goods coming from India as penalty for New Delhi’s continued buying of Russian oil.Trump signed an executive order imposing the additional tariff less than 14 hours before his initial tariffs were to come into effect.After the order, the total tariff on Indian goods, barring a small exemption list, will be 50 per cent.While the initial duty becomes effective on August 7, the additional levy will come into effect after 21 days.
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