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NEW DELHI
The Congress said connected Friday (November 21, 2025) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “safely and securely” attending the G20 acme due to the fact that the U.S. President Donald Trump had chosen to boycott it.
In a station connected X, Congress wide caput (communication), Jairam Ramesh wanted to know, if “huglomacy” with “my bully friend” would beryllium revived astatine the adjacent acme of the grouping successful America.
Prime Minister Modi embarked connected a three-day sojourn to South Africa connected Friday to be the G20 Summit successful Johannesburg.
Avoiding Trump
“The Prime Minister is attending the G20 Summit successful South Africa contiguous and tomorrow. He is doing truthful safely and securely since President Trump and the US are boycotting the summit. Recall that Mr. Modi didn’t spell to Kuala Lumpur a fewer days backmost for the India-ASEAN Summit since helium would past person to travel face-to-face with President Trump,” Mr. Ramesh said connected X, adding, “It is bonzer that the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the US opposes South Africa’s G20 themes of solidarity, equality, and sustainability connected the grounds that they magnitude to anti-Americanism.”
The Congress person pointed retired that the G20 Presidency rotates annually, and India took implicit from Indonesia successful November 2023, and Brazil took complaint successful November 2024.
“Now South Africa is to manus implicit to the U.S., which volition not beryllium present. So the adjacent G20 Summit a twelvemonth from present volition beryllium successful the U.S. By then, presumably, India’s commercialized (or)deal with the U.S. volition beryllium done. But if, implicit the past 7 months, President Trump has claimed 61 times that helium halted Operation Sindoor, ideate however galore much times helium volition repetition those claims successful the adjacent 12 months. Will huglomacy with “my bully friend” beryllium revived, oregon volition determination beryllium conscionable handshakes, oregon volition Mr. Modi decline? Time unsocial volition tell,” Mr. Ramesh said.
