Trump has claimed that he stopped Operation Sindoor using trade 50 times now: Congress

The Congress took a jibe at Modi government on Friday, saying that US President Donald Trump has "reached the half-century mark" of claiming he stopped Operation Sindoor using trade and tariffs.

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh took to his X account and mentioned the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and sending "message after message of praise and admiration to President Trump."

"He did not, of course, forget to speak to the man who had unleashed the genocide on Gaza - the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu - also during this time," he wrote.

Further the Congress leader wrote, "But yesterday was also the day when President Trump, during his meeting with President Alexander Stubb of Finland, reached the half-century mark on his claim that he stopped Operation Sindoor using trade and tariffs as his brahmastra," adding that Trump has been "consistent, insistent, and persistent," with the claims.

"And it won’t be long before he scores a century," he stated.

Last month, in his address to world leaders from the UN podium last week, Trump had repeated his claim that he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan.

India has been consistently maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.

(With PTI inputs)