Mumbai, Jan. 6 -- Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan today wondered aloud if US President Donald Trump will "kidnap" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"With a 50 per cent tariff, trade is simply not possible. In effect, this amounts to blocking India-US trade, especially exports from India to the United States. Since a direct ban cannot be imposed, tariffs have been used as a tool to stop trade. India will have to bear this," Chavan said while interacting to media persons here.
"The profits that our people earlier earned from exports to the US will no longer be available. We will have to look for alternative markets, and efforts in that direction are already underway," he said, before suddenly wonde...