New Delhi, July 30 -- Following US President Donald Trump's announcement of a 25 per cent tariff and additional penalty on India, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday said that the move is perhaps the biggest tribute to Indian strategic exceptionalism.

Tewari described Trump's remarks as an unexpected acknowledgement of India's long-standing foreign policy principles, which date back to the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

In a post on X, Tewari said, "Donald Trump has perhaps given the biggest tribute to Indian strategic exceptionalism and strategic autonomy now stretching back to 1947."

"The Policy of Non alignment that was put in place by India's first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru now called multi alignment an...