New Delhi [India], December 3 : A day after United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited President Donald Trump for the "India-Pakistan peace deal," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday took a jab at the Centre, claiming "No wonder the Modi-Trump huglomacy is in deep freeze," with the US side repeatedly contradicting Delhi's claims over Operation Sindoor.
"On May 10, 2025, at 5:37 PM, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the first person to announce the abrupt stoppage of Operation Sindoor. Subsequently, President Trump himself has made the claim at least 61 times in 6 different countries that it was due to his intervention that Operation Sindoor was halted. Now Mr. Rubio has once again reminded the world of what Mr. Trump has been saying repeatedly," Jairam Ramesh posted on X.
"No wonder the Modi-Trump huglomacy is in deep freeze," he added.
Earlier, in a press conference after the US Cabinet meeting in Washington DC, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had claimed that the US President "deserves tremendous credit" for ensuring various peace deals, including the "very dangerous India- Pakistan" deal.
"ThePresident's taken on this issue of Sudan. Personally, not send out deputies to do it. Again far away from the United States, because he is the only leader in the world that can bring to an end, not to mention all the other peace deals, very dangerous, like India-Pakistan, or Cambodia and Thailand," Rubio told reporters in US.
The US President has repeatedly claimed credit for ensuring a ceasefire is reached between India and Pakistan post the Pahalgam attack, which killed 26 people, and the subsequent reply of India through Operation Sindoor. However, New Delhi has denied such claims, saying that any talk of cessation of hostilities was reached bilaterally after talks with the Director General Of Military Operations (DGMO) of the respective countries.
Earlier on November 20, the Congress MP had said that a the annual report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission was a "severe setback" for diplomacy, as the report described the Pahalgam terror attack as an "insurgent attack" and hints at Pakistan's success over India during Operation Sindoor.
In an X post, Jairam Ramesh targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, describing the report as "astonishing and beyond understanding" while asking the External Affairs Ministry to register a protest against it.
The annual report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission looks at how China "opportunistically" used Pakistan's military crisis to test its own defence capabilities. Rather than recognising the Pahalgam incident as a terror attack, the report called the four-day clash between India and Pakistan a result "triggered by India's response to a deadly insurgent attack that killed 26 civilians in its contested Jammu and Kashmir region."
Looking at India's relations with China, the report also noted that PM Modi's visit to China during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit came in the backdrop of "tensions" after Trump imposed tariffs on the import of Indian goods.