India, Feb. 5 -- Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Wednesday said the India-US trade deal is "shrouded in opacity" and has raised fundamental questions beyond trade, which concern national sovereignty, India's global commitments to the multilateral trade regime and its leadership of the Global South.

Sharma posed a series of questions to Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, asking whether India has committed to opening up its agriculture and dairy sector as claimed by US President Donald Trump and whether India is committed to offering zero-duty access to the US on almost all products. In a statement, the former commerce minister said the trade deal with the US, claimed as "historic and path-breaking", is shrouded in opacity...