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Congress person Anand Sharma slammed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) for criticising India’s basal astatine the WTO Ministerial Conference successful Bali successful 2013 during the UPA regularisation and accused her of “deliberately misinforming” Parliament to warrant the “sellout” interim commercialized woody with the US.
Just for governmental gains, Ms. Sitharaman was misleading the federation and making an “orchestrated claim” that the UPA authorities “sold out” India’s nutrient information astatine the WTO gathering successful Bali, the erstwhile Commerce Minister said successful a statement.
“It is unfortunate and shocking that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has deliberately misinformed the Parliament connected the agreements reached astatine the ninth WTO Ministerial gathering successful Bali successful December 2013.
“In her desperation to warrant and support the sellout interim commercialized woody with the US, she has levelled an unfair allegation that the Congress-led UPA authorities had sold retired India's close to nutrient information astatine the WTO gathering successful Bali. This is mendacious and incorrect and contradicts the facts connected grounds and WTO’s authoritative statement," Mr. Sharma said.
Saying that the Finance Minister made the assertion for governmental gains, helium asserted that the “issue of nationalist stockholding for nutrient information was really forced by India astatine the Bali Ministerial gathering and the aforesaid were secured and protected.”
Ms. Sitharaman, connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), launched a blistering onslaught connected Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, saying that it was the Congress-led UPA authorities which surrendered India's involvement earlier planetary organisations, including the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and "sold" the involvement of the mediocre and farmers.
She alleged that it was the Congress which not lone sold the involvement of the mediocre and the farmers, but the state itself.
The information is that it was India's beardown and uncompromising stance that forced the contented of procurement of nutrient grains for nationalist banal holding and livelihood connected the Bali WTO docket contempt stiff absorption from the US, the European Union, the Cairns radical and developed nations, Mr. Sharma said.
“India fought tenaciously and succeeded successful putting unneurotic a planetary conjugation of processing countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. That forced the developed countries to cede ground, hold to negociate a imperishable solution to alteration the dated WTO rules, which India rejected astatine Bali arsenic inherently flawed and unjust.
“India besides secured for itself and different processing countries, extortion from immoderate situation astatine WTO for immoderate breach until a negotiated Permanent Solution was enactment successful place,” helium said.
Mr. Sharma claimed that the India-led conjugation of processing countries had lone consented to the WTO agreements aft archetypal securing the close of nationalist stockholding of nutrient grains for nutrient information purposes.
Quoting his ain connection successful some houses of Parliament connected December 13, 2013, helium said, “The Bali Ministerial was a resounding triumph of countries of the planetary south." The Congress person claimed that the contented of securing a bid clause connected nationalist stockholding for nutrient information purposes was spearheaded by India successful the look of determined absorption from the US and the Cairns Group subordinate countries.”
However, India succeeded successful putting the contented beyond immoderate situation nether the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO done the Bali Declaration, which protected India's nationalist stockholding of foodgrains nether the minimum enactment terms programmes from immoderate ineligible situation astatine the WTO, helium said.
Sharma said Sitharaman's connection successful 2015, erstwhile she was the Union commerce minister, saying that the statement reached astatine the Bali Ministerial Meeting was a impermanent Peace Clause, is "factually incorrect and governmental dishonesty".
Sitharaman, successful an enactment of governmental upmanship, had said successful Parliament that a imperishable statement would beryllium concluded earlier December 2015 arsenic per the assurance fixed by the past US President to PM Modi, the elder Congress person said.
"However, contempt a lapse of 12 years from the Bali Ministerial Declaration and 11 years from the General Council decision, a imperishable solution to the occupation is yet to beryllium arrived at," helium claimed.
