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“Will Modiji listen now? Or is there a ‘grip’ on him that is too strong? I stand firmly with the issues and struggles of workers and farmers,” Rahul Gandhi said.
On Wednesday, while participating in the debate on the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, Gandhi had launched a sharp attack on the Modi government, alleging that Indian interests had been “surrendered” under the trade deal to protect what he termed the BJP’s “financial architecture.”
Criticising the Indo–US agreement, he used a martial arts analogy, saying that after securing a grip, the next step is a chokehold, and eventually the opponent taps out — suggesting that India had yielded under pressure.
Rahul Gandhi also stressed the need to safeguard the country’s people, data, food supply and energy systems in what he described as an increasingly uncertain global environment. He maintained that had an INDIA bloc government negotiated the trade pact, it would have told US President Donald Trump to treat India as an equal partner in the discussions.
With PTI inputs