“For 37 days, PM has kept quiet…” Congress repeats all-party meet demand after Modi-Trump phone call

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New Delhi, June 18, 2025 (ANI): The Congress leadership has torn into the Union government and called for an all-party meeting after it was reported that US President Donald Trump is meeting with Pak Army COAS, Field Marshall Asim Munir. “Field Marshall Asim Munir, the man whose inflammatory, incendiary and provocative remarks were linked directly to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attacks, is having lunch today with President Trump in the White House. Is this why President Trump abandoned the G7 Summit a day early, denying Mr. Narendra Modi a huge hug? President Trump himself has trumpeted 14 times that he brought about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, meaning he ended Operation Sindoor. Gen. Michael Kurilla, the US Central Command Chief, calls Pakistan a 'phenomenal' partner in counter-terrorism operations. This is triple jhatka to Howdy Modi by Namaste Trump! Indian diplomacy is being shattered, and the PM is silent. And tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his (in)famous clean chit to China," Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh posted on X.”

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00:00See, there is a triple jhatka for Indian foreign policy.

00:03There is a direct link between the inflammatory, incendiary and provocative remarks made by

00:09Field Marshal Asin Munir and the April 22nd Pehergam terror attacks.

00:14And this very man is invited for a lunch by President Trump in the White House.

00:19This is a setback for Indian diplomacy.

00:23It's definitely a setback.

00:24The man who gave oxygen, masterminded, orchestrated the Pehergam terror attack, is now being invited

00:32for lunch by President Trump.

00:34Second, Michael Kurila, the chief of the US Central Command, calls Pakistan a phenomenal

00:41partner in counterterrorism operations.

00:43The first time.

00:45Pakistan, counterterrorism, phenomenal partner.

00:48It's a phenomenal perpetrator, not a phenomenal partner.

00:51And third, President Trump, 14 times has claimed that he mediated between India and Pakistan,

00:59which meant that Operation Sindhu had to be, you know, stopped, paused, as the Prime Minister

01:04says.

01:05And he used trade as an instrument.

01:08Now, for 37 days, the Prime Minister did not say anything.

01:12Now, today, we are told that he had a 35-minute call with President Trump.

01:17And there is a readout of what the Prime Minister is supposed to have said to Mr. Trump, President

01:22Trump.

01:23President Trump has also put out a statement from the White House.

01:28There is a difference between the two statements.

01:31Normally, there are these statements are different because they appeal to different audiences.

01:36So, my question is, is very simple.

01:40Prime Minister, there is a statement that the Prime Minister told the President Trump that America

01:46had no role, that we reject mediation, all that, which has been, this is what opposition

01:51parties, which is what the Indian National Congress has been demanding.

01:54But for 37 days, the Prime Minister has kept quiet.

01:58And today, we are being asked to believe that this is what he told President Trump.

02:02All I am saying is, President Trump's statement also talks about Europe.

02:08It talks about Middle East.

02:10Let that be.

02:11He also talks of international trade, bilateral relations.

02:15He talks of defense procurement.

02:17All that is not there in the Prime Minister's readout.

02:20However, let's take the Prime Minister's readout as the base.

02:24Why can't the Prime Minister call an all-party meeting tomorrow or day after tomorrow?

02:29Take the opposition parties' leaders into confidence and say the same thing which has been put

02:35out today by the Foreign Secretary, why is the Prime Minister getting others to speak on his

02:41behalf?

02:43Why can't the Prime Minister speak directly?

02:46Let him address the nation.

02:49Let him call the opposition leaders.

02:51We wanted, this is the reason why we wanted a parliament session, so that he could take the

02:56nation into confidence.

02:57But now the parliament session is going to open only on the 21st.

03:01It's going to, you know, begin on the 21st of July.

03:03So let him call an all-party meeting and let him say whatever he has said.

03:08It's taken him 37 days to say whatever he claims to have said to the President.

03:15Fine.

03:15He has had a 35-minute phone call.

03:18He has said certain things.

03:20Let him say the same thing to opposition leaders in an all-party meeting.

03:26Why can't he do that?

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