Rajeev Shukla, Shashi Tharoor contradict Rahul Gandhi’s stance on economy | India News

Rajeev Shukla, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor

NEW DELHI: On a day when chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi endorsed US President Donald Trump’s “dead economy” comment on India, Congress chief Rajeev Shukla refuted Trump’s view, saying he was “wrong”, at the same time as get together Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor held that US’s imposition of 25% tariff and penalties could also be only a “bargaining tactic” provided that commerce negotiations are on between the 2 international locations.Another Congress MP, Karti Chidambaram, took an analogous line and stated, “Trump is not a conventional politician… We should not panic immediately. These are all opening positions in a negotiation.”RS MP Rajeev Shukla informed ANI in Parliament advanced that “Trump saying that the economies of India and Russia are useless, is unsuitable. The Indian economy is just not useless”. He went on so as to add that “economic reforms were introduced when PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh were there. Atal Bihari Vajpayee took those reforms forward. Manmohan Singh strengthened them in his 10 years. The current govt has also worked on it. Our economic condition is not at all weak”.“If someone claims they can finish us economically, it’s likely due to a misunderstanding. Trump is living in a delusion. Imposing tariffs is wrong,” Shukla added.With his remarks seen to be contradictory to what Rahul stated on the state of the economy, Congress shared a video clip of Shukla responding to a query in Parliament the place he stated that Rahul Gandhi is aware of so much in regards to the economy and went on to checklist the financial reforms steered by Congress and UPA govt and accused BJP of attacking the get together and the Gandhi household with none motive on a regular basis.Tharoor, commenting on the US’s tariff resolution, stated, “We must give strong support to our negotiators to find the best deal possible. If a good deal is not possible, we may have to walk away”.“Twenty-five per cent plus an unspecified penalty for buying oil and gas from Russia could take it up to 35% or 45%; we don’t know how much. There is even talk of 100% penalty, which would destroy our trade with America,” Tharoor informed reporters.“Trade negotiations are still going on and there is a possibility, this may come down. If it doesn’t, it will certainly damage our exports because America is a very big market for us,” he added.