India, Sept. 23 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday hit back at Donald Trump aide Peter Navarro over his recent remarks against India over tariffs, saying that there was no need for such language when the two countries were getting closer.

Peter Navarro, White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, has made wild remarks on India recently, calling the country "maharaja of tariffs", "laundromat of Russia" and the Ukraine conflict as "Modi's war". Navarro also said "Brahmins are profiteering at the expense of the Indian people."

Asked over his take on Trump's levies and Peter Navarro's remarks, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor said in an ANI news agency interview that the unfairness of imposition of tariffs "has defin...