Criticizing Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said it was unfortunate that the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha was trying to mislead the nation about the India-US trade deal. Rahul Gandhi, Goyal said, has nothing to do with India’s progress.
“I wanted to provide information about the US-India trade agreement in Parliament, but. Rahul Gandhi, the opposition has behaved so shamefully,” Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a press conference in the capital on Tuesday.
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Goyal said the final details of the trade deal were being finalized India-US Joint Statement will be released soon.
Earlier, the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day after repeated adjournments on Tuesday amid protests and sloganeering by opposition members over the recently announced India-US trade agreementl. At least eight Congress Members of Parliament (MPs) have been suspended for “unruly” behaviour
“… It is very unfortunate that negative minded leaders like Rahul Gandhi are trying to mislead or confuse the country today. I condemn Rahul Gandhi’s lies and deception. He wants to mislead people but it is not working. The country is moving forward,” Goyal said.
President Trump announced on Monday evening (IST) that India and the US have agreed to a trade deal under which Washington will reduce reciprocal tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent from the current 25 per cent. Trump said this after a phone conversation with Prime Minister Modi, who announced US Ambassador to India Sergio Gorwho joined last month.
“They have no interest in making India the fastest growing economy in the world. During the ten years of Congress rule in the UPA governmentthey destroyed the economy, disturbed the people and stopped development,” the minister said.
After Trump’s announcement on Truth Social, Prime Minister Modi wrote in an X post that he was pleased that “products made in India will now have a reduced duty of 18%.
“Rahul Gandhi is a man with a negative attitude. India is moving forward. He doesn’t care. He wants to take India back to the UPA days when we were among the five fragile economies. I don’t think even an Indian citizen would agree with his misguided thinking,” he said, accusing Rahul Gandhi and other political leaders of trying to unleash anarchy.
“Rejection” politicians who will be rejected by the people”
“In parliament, they don’t trust our army soldiers; they question our army. I think people should hold leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee of TMC, MK Stalin of DMK… responsible for the negativity and the blame game,” Goyal said, labeling INDIA bloc leaders as a group of politicians who will ‘reject’ their anti-national acts.
in December Goyal was appointed as BJP election management for the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections. Elections in Tamil Nadu are scheduled for later this year, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other parties are challenging the ruling DMK-Congress alliance in the state.
“Prime Minister Modi caved in under US pressure”
Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi had claimed this Prime Minister Narendra Modi buckled under US pressure to complete the trade deal and through the deal “sold out” the hard work of Indian farmers.
“We need to understand why a trade deal that was stalled for four months was suddenly finalized last night,” Gandhi said, adding that “there was enormous pressure on the company. Prime Minister Modi.”
Addressing journalists in Parliament building complex after he was not allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha because he insisted on quoting from an article that cited the unpublished “memoirs of former army chief MM Naravane”, Rahul Gandhi said for the first time in history that Leader of the Opposition he was not allowed to address the president.
It is very unfortunate that negative minded leaders like Rahul Gandhi are trying to mislead or confuse the country today.
Gandhi claimed that Prime Minister Modi “has been compromised” and that Indian farmers need to understand their hard work as well as their blood and sweat has been “sold” through the India-US trade deal. He also said the entire country was “sold out”.