New Delhi, May 31 -- Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, in a series of posts on X on Saturday, intensified his demand for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the repeated claims by US President Donald Trump and his administration for brokering a cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan, questioning why the PM remains silent despite Trump's assertions of using trade to avert a nuclear escalation.

In one of his posts, Ramesh highlighted Trump's claims--made 11 times in 21 days across three countries--as equating India and Pakistan and pointed to a similar statement by US Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick in a New York court, pressing PM Modi to clarify whether Trump is lying or speaking partial truth.

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