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Targetting BJP led NDA government in the House,Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said that the Centre does not have the courage to say that US President Donald Trump was lying when he said brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan following the Operation Sindoor, which was India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 civilians dead.

 

This was the second day when the opposition Congress cornered Centre on what it maintained silence of Prime Minister Narender Modi on repeated claims made by US President Donald Trup over ceasefire. On Tuesday Rahul Gandhi tried to grill  the government over the same issue. 

 

"They don't have the courage to say that we don't tolerate such nonsense. 'Dal mein kuch kaala hai', that is why they are not saying anything," the Congress president said."I said yesterday that by the end of my speech, the count will increase to 30 (Donald Trump's statement on ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan). The US President kept saying this again and again, but they don't have the courage to say that he is lying," Kharge told reporters.Earlier in the day, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not outrightly calling Trump a liar, alleging that if he does so, then the "whole truth" will come out.

 

The Lok Sabha LoP stated that Trump is currently claiming to have brokered a ceasefire deal, aiming to pressure India amid ongoing trade discussions between the two countries.“It is obvious that the Prime Minister has not said that Trump has not lied. Everyone knows what has happened; they are just not able to say that is the problem. This is the truth: if the PM says (something), then he (Donald Trump) will say by opening up fully, then the whole truth will come out. That is why it is not being said,” Gandhi told the media.

 

Despite the Centre’s repeated clarifications that the US, or any other country, was not involved in deciding on the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan, Donald Trump has once again claimed to have brokered peace between the nations.

 

 

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