Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's code to the nation, the Congress connected Sunday (September 21, 2025) took a swipe astatine him, asking whether helium volition code U.S. President Donald Trump's India-Pakistan "ceasefire" claims and the concerns of lakhs of Indian H-1B visa holders oregon conscionable repetition what is already known connected the caller GST rates.
PM Modi will code the federation astatine 5 p.m. connected Sunday (September 21), his bureau said. However, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) gave nary denotation of the taxable of his code successful the evening.
His code volition travel connected the eve of Navratri, the time from erstwhile the revised GST rates volition footwear in, with the prices of a ample fig of products acceptable to travel down.
In a station connected X, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh said, "As the PM prepares to code the nation, his bully person successful Washington D.C. has erstwhile again stolen his thunder and claimed — for the 42nd clip — that helium stopped Operation Sindoor by utilizing accrued commercialized with America arsenic leverage."
President Trump has made these claims not lone astatine location successful the United States, but besides successful Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UK, Mr. Ramesh said.
"Will the PM code these claims and talk of the progressively fraught Indo-US relationship? Will helium code the concerns of lakhs of Indian H-1B holders? Will helium supply immoderate assurances to the crores of farmers and workers who basal to suffer their livelihood owed to his bully friend's tariffs? Or volition helium conscionable repetition what we each cognize connected the caller GST rates — worked retired nether desperation and which go effectual tomorrow?" the Congress person said.
In a abrupt determination that volition hugely interaction skilled Indian professionals successful the U.S., President Trump has ordered a steep hike successful the yearly H-1B non-immigrant visa interest to $100,000.
The Trump administration, however, has clarified that the caller $100,000 interest for H-1B visas is simply a one-time outgo applicable lone to caller petitions and does not use to existent visa holders.
Also, Mr. Trump has repeated his assertion that helium solved the India-Pakistan struggle earlier this twelvemonth with commercialized and asserted that helium should get the Nobel Peace Prize for "ending 7 wars".
Since May 10, erstwhile Mr. Trump announced connected societal media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a afloat and contiguous ceasefire aft a agelong nighttime of talks mediated by Washington, helium has repeated his assertion respective times that helium helped settee the tensions betwixt India and Pakistan.
India has consistently denied immoderate third-party intervention.
"On the satellite stage, we are erstwhile again doing things that we are conscionable respected astatine a level that we person ne'er been respected before. We are forging bid agreements, and we are stopping wars. So we stopped wars betwixt India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia," Mr. Trump said astatine the American Cornerstone Institute Founder's Dinner connected Saturday (September 20).
He went connected to say, "Think of India and Pakistan. Think of that. And you cognize however I stopped that — with trade. They privation to trade. And I person large respect for some leaders. But erstwhile you instrumentality a look astatine each of these wars that we've stopped." "Just look astatine that. India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. We stopped each of them. And 60% of them were stopped due to the fact that of trade," the U.S. President claimed.
He added that "like with India, I said, 'look, we're not going to bash immoderate commercialized if you're going to combat and they person atomic weapons. They stopped."
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians. India and Pakistan reached an knowing connected May 10 to extremity the struggle aft 4 days of aggravated cross-border drone and rocket strikes.
India has been consistently maintaining that the knowing connected cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
