New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t renegotiate the trade deal with the US. His statement came after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.
In a post on X, Rahul said: “The PM is compromised. His betrayal now stands exposed. He can’t renegotiate. He will surrender again.”
Similarly, Congress General Secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, described the India-US trade deal as an “ordeal.”
In a post on X, he said: “Yesterday after the US Supreme Court struck down his tariffs policy, President Trump declared that (i) Mr. Modi is his great friend; (ii) the India-US trade deal will continue as announced; (iii) he had personally halted Operation Sindoor on May 10 2025 by threatening to increase tariffs on Indian exports to the US if India did not halt Operation Sindoor.”
On February 2, Trump was the first to announce that the India-US trade deal had been finalised and said that “out of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Modi and, as per his request, effective immediately, we agreed to a trade deal between the US and India,” Ramesh further said.
Ramesh added: “What forced Prime Minister Modi to ensure President Trump announced the India-US trade deal on the night of February 2, 2026, Indian time? What had happened in the Lok Sabha that afternoon that had compelled Mr. Modi to get so desperate and reach out to his good friend in the White House to create a diversion? If Mr. Modi had not been so desperate to protect his fragile image and waited just 18 days more, Indian farmers would have been spared their agony and distress, and Indian sovereignty would have been protected.”
Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala too said that the Modi government should answer the nation regarding the trade deal.
“Why did the Modi Government suddenly rush to execute the US – India Trade Deal – ‘Framework Agreement’, on 6th February 2026, despite full knowledge that the United States Supreme Court had heard the issue of quashing the President’s powers to impose tariffs on 5th November 2025 and a judgment on the same was awaited?” Surjewala wrote on his X account.
