Jairam Ramesh
NEW DELHI: Dubbing the India-US replace deal meantime framework as a “surrender”, Congress on Saturday said commerce minister Piyush Goyal’s assertion on agri imports changed into “too clever by half” because the joint assertion mentions a listing of merchandise which India would put away with or minimize tariffs upon, in conjunction with “additional products”.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh eminent “additional products” had been now not specified, that the category changed into “too open-ended and shows that something is being hidden”. He said there might perchance perchance presumably be issues when extra fundamental parts came to light.
“Deal Favours US farmers” Opposition Assaults India-US Alternate Framework
Old vogue finance minister P Chidambaram said India and the US had now not reached any replace agreement and this wasn’t even an meantime agreement, nevertheless “framework of an interim agreement”.“One thing is clear: The framework deal is heavily tilted in favour of the US and the asymmetry is obvious,” Chidambaram said.Congress spokesman Pawan Khera alleged the deal would crash farmers’ backs at some point.
