Congress: US calling India 'good actor' is evidence of PM Modi's cowardice

NEW DELHI: After slamming the Modi authorities for the US "permission" to India for Russian lipid imports, Congress Saturday attacked the BJP implicit the remark from American treasury caput that India has been a "good actor" for agreeing to halt imports from Russia connected US request - calling it grounds of PM Modi's "cowardice".AICC spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said, "The US treasury caput has fixed the Modi govt its certificate for faithfully pursuing President Trump's orders. Does thing much request to beryllium said astir however cowardly and compromised the self-proclaimed 56-inch thorax has become?" Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge lashed retired astatine the Modi govt implicit the summation successful LPG prices, saying the govt each these years refused to springiness the payment of debased planetary crude prices to the consumers, but has chosen to summation the prices now.

AICC spokesperson Pawan Khera said petroleum curate Hardeep Singh Puri said connected Friday that "our precedence is to guarantee availability of affordable and sustainable substance for our citizens, and we are doing it comfortably", and wrong hours, the authorities hiked the LPG cylinder prices. "Never judge a connection of what Hardeep Singh Puri says," helium added.