India, March 13 -- Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday questioned the timing of Elon Musk's Starlink's deals with India's leading telecom companies, Jio and Airtel, claiming they were "orchestrated" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "buy peace with Donald Trump" amid global tariff wars.

Jairam Ramesh wondered how Jio and Airtel could announce a partnership with Starlink "within 12 hours" and welcome a company they once opposed into the Indian market.

Speaking to ANI, the Congress leader said, "Both these companies had been opposing Starlink's entry into India because Starlink wanted the allocation of spectrum when they wanted spectrum to be auctioned, which was the government of India's policy since 2014."

The Rajya Sabha MP fur...