Opposition Congress today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to call an all-party meeting to take opposition parties in confidence on India’s stance on US President Donald Trump’s mediation claim in the India-Pakistan ceasefire. “For 37 days, the PM did not say anything,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s briefing on PM Modi’s telephonic conversation with Trump.
“Today, we are told that he had a 35-minute call with President Trump, and there is a readout of what the Prime Minister is supposed to have said to Mr Trump. President Trump has also put out a statement from the White House; there is a difference between the two statements,” Ramesh said.
Ramesh later retracted the part about a statement by White House, saying “I never claimed to be non-biological. An inadvertent error was made and immediately rectified,” reiterating that PM Modi needs to call an all-party meeting to take opposition parties into confidence. But by then BJP’s Amit Malviya had already put out his statement calling “Ramesh a congenital liar — much like Rahul Gandhi” asking Congress to “stop maligning India’s firm and principled foreign policy just to feed its petty narratives”
“He Ramesh) is now peddling yet another falsehood, claiming that Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s statement doesn’t match the US readout — while dramatically waving his phone around
“But here is the catch: the readout he is citing is from January 2025! And there is no official U.S. release yet on the latest call.
“The Congress and its troll army simply can’t digest the fact that Prime Minister Modi told President Trump in clear terms — India neither needs nor accepts any third-party mediation.
The de-escalation with Pakistan happened through DGMOs, and at Pakistan’s own request.
“Under Congress, India was seen as a weak, third-world country. Today, India is a rising power — a bright star in the global order. No amount of lies can dim that truth,” Malviya wrote on X
According to Misri, PM Modi told Trump that India never asked for and will never accept any third-party mediation to resolve the issue of Pakistan’s illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir. In his 35-minute phone call with Trump, PM Modi also made it clear that India’s counter-terrorism operation, Operation Sindoor, is ongoing, he said.
