U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on December 2, 2025 in Washington. | Photo credit: AP
The Congress on Wednesday (Dec 3, 2025) hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over repeated US claims that President Donald Trump brokered peace between India and Pakistan, saying “no wonder the Modi-Trump huglomy is in the deep freeze”.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Mr Trump had brokered several peace deals, including very dangerous ones such as India and Pakistan, and deserved huge credit for reshaping US foreign policy.
Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh said that on May 10, 2025, at 5:37 p.m., Mr. Rubio was the first person to announce the sudden halt to Operation Sindoor.
“Subsequently, President Trump himself has stated at least 61 times in 6 different countries that Operation Sindoor was stopped because of his intervention,” he said on X.
“Now Mr. Rubio has reminded the world again what Mr. Trump has been saying repeatedly. No wonder the Modi-Trump huglomy is in the deep freeze,” Mr. Ramesh said.
During a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday (Dec 2, 2025), Mr Rubio said for the first time in decades that US foreign policy is solely about making the US safer, stronger and more prosperous.
“If it is, (Trump) is for it. If it’s not, it’s against it. And that kind of clarity is transformative,” he said.
“Not to mention all the other peace deals, very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan or Cambodia and Thailand and so on… Mr. President, I think you deserve tremendous credit for the transformational aspect of our foreign policy,” Mr. Rubio said.
Earlier in the Cabinet meeting, Mr Trump reiterated his claim to have resolved several global conflicts, including between India and Pakistan, saying he should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for each of the “eight wars” he has ended.
“We’ve ended eight wars… But we’re going to do one more, I think, I hope,” Trump said, referring to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed to have resolved conflicts between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and Congo during the first eight and nine months of his second term in the White House. He also takes credit for resolving the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Since Mr. Trump announced on social media on May 10 that India and Pakistan had agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire after a long night of talks brokered by Washington, he has repeated more than 60 times his claim that he had helped ease tensions between the two neighbors.
New Delhi has consistently denied any third-party interference.
India launched Operation Sindoor on 7 May, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the 22 April Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an agreement on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile attacks.
Published – 03 Dec 2025 11:57 IST
