‘Huglomacy in Deep Freeze’: Congress Criticises PM Modi After Trump’s Ceasefire Claim

The Congress party launched a blistering offensive against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, directly linking the deteriorating personal equation between Modi and US President Donald Trump to Washington’s relentless insistence that Trump single-handedly forced a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during the explosive May 2025 military confrontation, with party spokesperson Jairam Ramesh declaring that the famous Modi-Trump “huglomacy” has now entered a deep and unmistakable freeze.

Speaking at a White House Cabinet meeting on December 2, 2025, newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio lavished praise on Trump for reshaping American foreign policy and explicitly cited the India-Pakistan crisis as one of the “very dangerous” conflicts the President had resolved, adding fresh fuel to a narrative that New Delhi has rejected from day one and that Trump himself has repeated more than sixty times across half a dozen countries since the guns fell silent.

India has maintained an unwavering official position that the May 10 ceasefire was achieved exclusively through direct commander-level military communication between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, with no external mediation whatsoever, following four days of intense cross-border strikes launched under Operation Sindoor in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack that left twenty-six Indian civilians dead.

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Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh pointed out that Rubio was the very first foreign official to publicly announce the abrupt end of hostilities on May 10 at precisely 5:37 PM, and that the continuing American claim not only contradicts India’s version of events but also embarrasses the government by suggesting New Delhi required Washington’s intervention to de-escalate a conflict it had initiated on its own terms.

As Trump continues to nominate himself for multiple Nobel Peace Prizes for supposedly ending “eight wars” worldwide, including the subcontinental flashpoint, the opposition’s pointed sarcasm has exposed a growing diplomatic rift that threatens to overshadow defence, trade and technology cooperation, turning what was once one of the warmest leader-level relationships on the global stage into a frosty standoff marked by conflicting public narratives and bruised national pride.

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