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With U.S. President Donald Trump announcing that helium is barring South Africa from participating successful adjacent year's Group of 20 (G20) acme successful Miami, the Congress connected Friday (November 28, 2025 ) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the "self-proclaimed champion" of some Africa and the Global South and asked whether helium volition instrumentality up South Africa's origin with his "good friend".
President Donald Trump said connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) that helium is barring South Africa from participating successful the Group of 20 acme adjacent twelvemonth successful Miami and volition "stop each payments and subsidies" to the state implicit its attraction of a U.S. authorities typical astatine this year's planetary meeting.
Reacting to the development, Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said South Africa has been successful the G20 from the precise opening simply due to the fact that it is the largest system measured by size of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) successful the African continent.
"It is not determination due to the fact that the U.S. is doing it immoderate favour. It was precise overmuch contiguous astatine the precise archetypal G20 Summit held successful Washington DC that was chaired by President George Washington Bush and has been a valued beingness successful each consequent G20 Summits," General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said connected X.
Noting that South Africa and India stock a peculiar relationship, the Congress person said they are portion of the archetypal BRICS radical besides involving Brazil, Russia, and China.
They are besides portion of IBSA on with Brazil and of BASIC arsenic good on with Brazil and China, General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
"It has often been remarked that an Indian lawyer went to South Africa successful the precocious 19th period and returned location arsenic a revolutionary successful the aboriginal years of the 20th period to pb India's independency movement," General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said, referring to Mahatma Gandhi.
India was successful the forefront successful the planetary run against apartheid successful South Africa for decades and fought hard for its decolonisation, General Secretary Jairam Ramesh pointed retired and added Nelson Mandela is an iconic fig to Indians arsenic well.
"The Prime Minister is the self-proclaimed champion of some Africa and the Global South. Will helium instrumentality up South Africa's origin with his bully person and guarantee that it volition get to be the adjacent G20 Summit — arsenic it is perfectly entitled to?" General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
President Donald Trump chose not to person an American delegation be the caller acme hosted by South Africa, saying helium did truthful due to the fact that achromatic Afrikaners were being violently persecuted — a assertion that South Africa rejected arsenic baseless.
U.S President Donald Trump, successful a societal media post, said South Africa had refused to manus implicit its G20 hosting responsibilities to a elder typical of the U.S. Embassy erstwhile the acme ended implicit the weekend.
"Therefore, astatine my direction, South Africa volition NOT beryllium receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20 summit, which volition beryllium hosted successful the Great City of Miami, Florida adjacent year," Trump posted connected Truth Social.
"South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a state worthy of Membership anywhere", President Donald Trump said, adding, "and we are going to halt each payments and subsidies to them, effectual immediately".
