New Delhi [India], July 19 : Days before the monsoon session of Parliament, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his "friendship and huglomacy" with US president Donald Trump while demanding clarification regarding the "five jets shot down" claims made by the latter in his latest speech.
"The sensational new revelation by President Trump this time around is that five jets may have been downed. The Prime Minister, who has had years of friendship and huglomacy with President Trump going back to Howdy Modi in Sept 2019 and Namaste Trump in Feb 2020, has to now himself make a clear and categorical statement in Parliament on what President Trump has been claiming over the past 70 days," the Congress Rajya Sabha MP posted on X.
Reacting to the claims made by Trump regarding the recently concluded tensions between India and Pakistan, Ramesh said that the US president remains fixated on his intervention to stop the war between the two nuclear nations and emphasised the threat of "no trade deal" if the war continued.
"Just two days before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins, the Trump missile gets fired for the 24th time with the same two messages: 1. The US stopped the war between India and Pakistan, two countries that have nuclear weapons. 2. No trade deal if the war continued. So if India and Pakistan want a trade agreement with the US, they have to agree to an immediate ceasefire," he added.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump once again claimed to stop the India-Pakistan conflict.
Trump stated that he halted the escalation with the assistance of a trade deal.
"We stopped a lot of wars. And these were serious, India and Pakistan, that were going on. Planes were being shot out of there. I think five jets were shot down, actually. These are two serious nuclear countries, and they were hitting each other. You know, it seems like a new form of warfare. You saw it recently when you looked at what we did in Iran, where we knocked out their nuclear capability, totally knocked out that," he said.
"But India and Pakistan were going at it, and they were back and forth, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and we got it solved through trade. We said, you guys want to make a trade deal. We're not making a trade deal if you're going to be throwing around weapons, and maybe nuclear weapons, both very powerful nuclear states," Trump added.
Earlier on Monday, Trump reiterated his claim that he stopped the escalation of the recent India-Pakistan conflict after the Pahalgam terror attack.
Trump made these remarks during his meeting with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte.
"We have been very successful in settling wars, India, Pakistan... India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. It was going very badly," Trump stated.