{"id":193988,"date":"2026-02-03T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=193988"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:46:56","slug":"the-country-has-been-sold-out-rahul-gandhi-slams-modi-over-hasty-us-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/03\/the-country-has-been-sold-out-rahul-gandhi-slams-modi-over-hasty-us-trade-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe country has been sold out\u201d: Rahul Gandhi slams Modi over hasty US trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192748\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/Rahul-Ganday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/Rahul-Ganday.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/Rahul-Ganday-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>New Delhi: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bowed to US pressure to finalise a trade deal, adding that the interests of Indian farmers and the country at large have been compromised through the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Gandhi made the remarks while addressing reporters in the Parliament House complex after he was not allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha. He said he was stopped from quoting an article that referred to unpublished memoirs of former Indian Army chief General MM Naravane. He said it is for the first time in history that the Leader of Opposition has not been allowed to speak on the president\u2019s address.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the timing of the agreement, he remarked, \u201cWe need to understand why a trade deal stuck for about four months was suddenly finalised last evening,\u201d adding that \u201cthere was huge pressure on PM Modi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what kind of pressure he was referring to, Gandhi said there is a case against industrialist Gautam Adani in the US and a lot more is to come in the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Modi \u201chas been compromised\u201d and that Indian farmers must understand their hard work \u201cas well as their blood and sweat\u201d has been \u201csold out\u201d through the India-US trade deal. He also said the entire country had been \u201csold out\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bowed to US pressure to finalise a trade deal, adding that the interests of Indian farmers and the country at large have been compromised through the agreement. According to Kashmir Media Service, Gandhi made the remarks while addressing reporters &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/Rahul-Ganday.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193989,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193988\/revisions\/193989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}