New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Congress leader Pawan Khera on Saturday criticised the India-US interim trade agreement, alleging it compromised India's interests and self-respect.

Khera contrasted current leadership with past leaders who stood firm with US counterparts, implying a loss of assertiveness and invoked the names of former US Presidents Nixon, Bush, and Obama, suggesting that previous Indian governments dealt with global superpowers as equals.

"Where is the India which used to look Nixon, George Bush and Obama in the eye and forge practical relations? Why does it feel today that the interests of the common people of India are undermined before the interests of Narendra Modi and his two friends, Ambani and Adani? This is not an Agreemen...