Rahul Gandhi has set the Prime Minister a test. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the Congress scion taunted the Prime Minister thus: “If Modiji has even 50% of the courage that Indira Gandhi had, then clearly he must say in Parliament – Donald Trump (U.S. President) is lying…Trump you’re a liar you did not make a ceasefire…"

The taunt caparisons a shrill campaign launched by the Congress aimed at providing Modi some sort of gateway to redemption in the public sphere as if he needed one.

For the past few weeks, the principal opposition party has sought to establish that Modi “surrendered" India’s strategic autonomy—that he did so by agreeing to a Donald Trump-dictated ceasefire just as India’s armed forces had gained the upper hand over Pakistan’s military during Op Sindoor. Trump has inadvertently helped the Congress party’s cause by repeatedly crediting himself for “brokering a truce" between his “two great friends"—........

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