NEW DELHI: As US President Donald Trump once again claimed credit for “stopping a war between India and Pakistan”, India’s opposition Congress party criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his continued silence on the matter.
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh shared a video clip of Trump’s remarks on X in which the US president again said that he had “stopped a war between India and Pakistan” and did so “with trade”.
Ramesh noted that Trump has repeated this assertion multiple times, yet Prime Minister Modi has not responded. Ramesh said that even as India is engulfed in grief over the Ahmedabad aircraft tragedy, President Trump continues to make his claims on India and Pakistan for the “nth time”.
“This was at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC yesterday. And the Prime Minister continues to be silent on these claims,” the Congress leader said.
At the Kennedy Center on Thursday, Trump while asserting that he “can solve anything” said India and Pakistan have had a long time rivalry over Kashmir and he will bring the two nations together.
“We are going to get those two (India and Pakistan) getting together,” Trump said in response to a question during a bill signing ceremony in the White House. “I told them, India and Pakistan, they have had a long time rivalry over Kashmir and I said I can solve anything”, he said.
The US president repeated his claim that he stopped a war between India and Pakistan with phone calls and trade. “I stopped a war between India and Pakistan, and I stopped it with trade,” he said.
