New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor once again opposed Rahul Gandhi’s stance, which dismissed US President Donald Trump’s claim that “the Indian economy is dead”.Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “killing the economy” a day after Trump supported Trump, Tharoor said that it is not so.Talking to reporters outside Parliament, Thiruvananthapuram MP said, “This is not the case, and we all know it.”Earlier, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that “the Indian economy was dead” because “PM Modi killed it” and listed five reasons, according to him, due to a decline in the fourth largest economy in the world.Rahul said in a social media post on X, “Adani-Modi partnership; Dimonettion and a faulty GST; A unsuccessful ‘failed’ initiative in India; MSMES erased; farmers crushed,” Rahul said in a social media post on X.He said, “Modi has destroyed the future of India’s youth because there is no job.”Additionally, talking to reporters, Rahul also claimed that everyone except PM Modi and Finance Minister Neeramla Sitarman know that India’s economy is dead. He also said that the US President has “said the facts”.Rahul said, “Everyone except PM Modi and Finance Minister knows this. It is a dead economy. I am happy that the US President has said the facts … The whole world knows that the BJP has ended the Indian economy to help Adani,” Rahul said.After taking a sharp job in India and Russia, Trump suggested that the two nations can “take their dead economies down together.”In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all. For all. We have done very little business with India – their tariffs are very high, most in the world. Similarly, Russia and USA do not do almost any business together.”Earlier, Trump announced a 25% tariff on all goods imported from India, as well as with an unspecified punishment, from 1 August, the two countries triggered the nervousness among the exporters after the two countries failed to reach an interim trade deal from 1 August.
