India, Aug. 7 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly responsible for US President Donald Trump's imposition of 50% import tariffs on India. "You can't even blame this foreign policy disaster on the 70 years of Congress," Kharge jibed in a post on X.

Stressing on India's national interest being supreme, he said that any country that "penalises" India over its strategic autonomy "doesn't understand the steel frame India is made of".

He cited "threats of 7th fleet" during the Bangladesh war of 1971 and sanctions imposed after the nuclear tests, as moments when India navigated the relationship with the US "with self-respect and dignity".

Now, he said, diplomacy is "disastrously dithe...