NEW DELHI — Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday endorsed US President Donald Trump’s description of India as a “dead economy,” claiming that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman refuse to acknowledge the country’s economic decline.
Rahul Gandhi said everybody except Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman know that the Indian economy is “dead”, as he alleged that the BJP-led government has destroyed the country’s economic, defence and foreign policies.
US President Donald Trump called the India economy as ‘dead’. Mounting a sharp attack on India and Russia for their close ties said that the two countries can take their “dead economies down together”.
“I am glad that President Trump has stated a fact,” Gandhi said.
Speaking with reporters in the Parliament House complex, Rahul Gandhi also claimed that a trade deal with the US will happen and Trump will define it, while Prime Minister Modi will do what the American President tells him to do.
Gandhi alleged that the BJP has destroyed the Indian economy in order to help billionaire Gautam Adani.
Referring to Modi’s speech in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Gandhi said the PM neither took Trump’s name nor of China
“He (Modi) did not say that no country condemned Pakistan. Trump is having lunch with Pakistan military chief who was behind the Pahalgam attack, and they are saying there has been a big success. What success is this? he said.
“Trump has said 30 times that I got the ceasefire done (between India and Pakistan). Trump said five planes of India were downed, he is now saying I will put a 25 per cent tariff. Did you ask why Modi is not able to answer, what is the reason? Who has the control?” he said.
Gandhi further said the main issue in front of India today is that the government has “destroyed” the country’s economic, defence and foreign policies.
“They are running this country into the ground. The prime minister works only for one person – Adani. All small businesses have been wiped out,” he said.
Referring to the India-US trade deal that is under negotiation, Gandhi said this deal will happen and Trump will define how this deal will happen.
“Modi will do what Trump tells him to do,” the former Congress president said. — With inputs from agencies
