PM Modi must call an all-party meeting upon return and inform leaders of what he told Trump: Congress. - watsupptoday.com
PM Modi must call an all-party meeting upon return and inform leaders of what he told Trump: Congress.
Posted 27 Jun 2025 04:47 PM

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June 18, 2025: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from his three-nation tour, the Congress demanded on Wednesday that he immediately chair an all-party meeting to inform leaders of what he told US President Donald Trump over the phone and restore public confidence. The opposition party also called reports that Pakistan Army chief Gen Asim Munir would be having lunch with Trump a "huge setback" and said that the PM should have told the US President about India's displeasure during their phone conversation. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh urged the government to form a Pahalgam Review Committee on the lines of the Kargil Review Committee that was set up three days after the Kargil War.

Ramesh told the news agency that the prime minister needs to refute Trump's claims that he used trade to broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Parliament. Following Modi's conversation with President Trump, Ramesh made the clarification that India had paused strikes on Pakistan during Operation Sindoor on the request of Islamabad and not as a result of US mediation or an offer of a trade deal. According to Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Modi briefed Trump on India's Operation Sindoor, which was launched against terror sites in Pakistan, during his 35-minute phone call on Tuesday. He also made it clear that India has never accepted third-party mediation and will never accept it in the future.
Ramesh stated, "This is a triple jhatka for Indian diplomacy" in response to reports that Trump is scheduled to have lunch with Gen. Munir. Today Field Marshal Munir, whose incendiary, inflammatory, provocative and unacceptable remarks formed the background to the Pahalgam terror attack, is set to have lunch with President Trump. A special one-on-one lunch with President Trump is being planned for the same military man who is not in charge of the government. This is a significant setback." "The second huge setback came when US General Michael Kurilla, the US Central Command Chief, had declared Pakistan to be a 'phenomenal partner' in counter-terror operations. Same Pakistan that gave sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden who was killed in May 2011 in Abbottabad. How does Pakistan become a phenomenal partner? Pakistan is a phenomenal perpetrator. "It is a setback for Indian diplomacy to call a perpetrator a partner," Ramesh told the sources. He said the third setback was President Trump claiming credit 14 times for pausing Operation Sindoor and having a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
"He (Trump) says he used trade as an instrument, equating India and Pakistan. He stated this fourteen times, but the PM has not spoken since May 10. So this is a triple setback," the Congress leader said.
Ramesh stated that during the telephone conversation between Modi and Trump, the PM is said to have informed Trump that trade was not discussed in relation to Operation Sindoor and that there is no room for mediation. "Why doesn't he say this to the all-party meeting? That is why we have been demanding a special Parliament session so that the PM takes the nation into confidence and say all the things he has supposed to have told President Trump," Ramesh said.
"When he comes back, let him immediately call an all-party meeting and say this is what my 35-minute conversation with President Trump was all about," he said.
Ramesh reiterated that Modi must instill confidence in the nation, noting that it has taken 37 days for the PM to speak out against Trump's 14 claims. "I feel that Asim Munir's lunch and Kurilla's statements are huge setbacks for PM's diplomacy. Diplomacy has been high on optics under the Modi government. These are unexpected setbacks. Ramesh stated, "We must rely less on optics and more on substance." "There is no substitute for taking the nation into confidence and building a collective will and resolve," he said.

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