Chief Minister Siddaramaiah | Photo credit: file photo
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of a “humble capitulation to the US” and demanded that the prime minister step down for the good of the nation.
“Mr. Narendra Modi has time and again proven himself to be incompetent and unable to defend and uphold India’s sovereignty and dignity,” the chief minister said in a post on social media.
“It is deeply humiliating that the United States is now openly saying it will ‘allow’ India to buy Russian oil for 30 days. No foreign government should ever be in a position to grant or deny India permission to run its economy. Yet this is the situation India finds itself under Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he said.
“Donald Trump is speaking like the acting Prime Minister of India, while Narendra Modi seems to be reduced to a puppet who is merely following instructions. The Prime Minister of a sovereign republic cannot allow such a situation to arise.” he claimed.
“This pattern cannot be ignored now. Trump repeatedly claims credit for the Operation Sindoor ceasefire, yet we have heard no strong rebuttal from PM Modi. The US is telling India not to buy Iranian oil, and the Modi government is complying. The pressure is on to import Russian oil – India is cutting it. Now the US is announcing that Indian refineries are “allowed” to buy Russian oil for only 30 days.
“The irony is that while the RSS-BJP leaders are still demanding that the words secular and socialist be removed from the constitution, under their rule ‘sovereignty’ itself seems to have been removed in practice,” he claimed.
“India must speak its own voice in the world. At a time when the world is torn by war and bloodshed, India must show moral leadership and independent thinking guided by our own history,” he argued.
Published – March 9, 2026 11:27 PM IST
