New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi "will always act in India's interest" whereas it was the Congress that "surrendered" before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) its public distribution system in 2013, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her reply to Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's accusation that the India-US trade deal has mortgaged the future of 1.4 billion Indians. While responding to the debate on Union Budget 2026-27 in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the finance minister said that "it was the Congress which surrendered before WTO, sold the poor and farmers during its regime when it signed the Bali agreement in 2013." It was the Modi government which intervened in 2014 and "restored India's sovereign policy space, saved our farmers and gave our poor free food grains", she said. P7...