It’s one thing for a frustrated US President Donald Trump to spew nonsense after he fails to stop major conflicts, which he promised to during his election campaign, especially the US-Ukraine conflict, which has run for over a year. But it’s another when the Indian Opposition — particularly Rahul Gandhi — parrots that nonsense as gospel truth, undermining India’s progress, mocking its military, belittling its scientists, and ultimately, betraying the trust of 1.4 billion Indians.
India is not a failed state, a “dead economy,” or a pliable puppet of any foreign power, including the so-called superpower, the US. It is the world’s fourth-largest economy, a rising military force, and a sovereign nation that bows to none. And if anyone’s upset by this meteoric rise, it is not the Indian people — it’s the frustrated club of international failed leaders, and their loyal stooges in Lutyens Delhi, who envy Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s global popularity chart.
President Trump’s latest ramblings — claiming he prevented a war between India and Pakistan — are laughable. India has repeatedly and categorically stated it does not entertain third-party intervention in bilateral matters, especially not from loudmouths desperate for international relevance.
After India’s daring four-day Operation Sindoor — a surgical retaliation to the Pahalgam terror strike — New Delhi needed no saviour. Indian forces decimated 11 Pakistani terror camps and airbases, including key Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters, without losing a single jet. Pakistan’s retaliatory attempts were foiled by India’s indigenously developed air defence systems — intercepting over 1,000 incoming threats, including drones, missiles and fighter jets of Chinese and Turkish origin.
So, when Trump falsely claims five fighter jets were lost — without specifying whose — he exposes either his ignorance or a deliberate attempt to deflect from his failures in stopping the Ukraine war. Worse, unconfirmed reports suggest that India’s precision strikes reached alarmingly close to US-origin nuclear assets parked near Pakistan’s Nur Khan Air Base — a reminder that the West’s strategic footprint in South Asia is not as hidden as it thinks.
Instead of backing the armed forces and scientific community, the Congress-led INDI Alliance chose to indulge in what can only be called treachery. During a 16-hour Lok Sabha debate and a 9-hour Rajya Sabha discussion on Operation Sindoor, Opposition leaders didn’t just question the government — they mocked it. They didn’t demand accountability — they peddled fiction. And they didn’t represent democratic dissent — they displayed naked political desperation.
From mocking India’s success in neutralising terrorists to casting doubts on the veracity of the strikes, they were exposed, not just by BJP ministers like Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, and Jaishankar, but also by the Prime Minister himself, who minced no words in calling out their defeatist attitude.
PM Modi’s allies and party members, backed by data and facts, nailed every lie, while the Opposition leaders remained red-faced. The Lutyens media, ever loyal to their political patrons, tried to spin the story but failed — because the truth was undeniable.
In a fit of rage, Trump announced a 25% tariff on Indian agricultural exports. He threatened oil deals with Pakistan and took jabs at the India-Russia relationship, calling it a union of “two dead economies.” Ironically, both these “dead” economies are leaving the US behind in strategic and economic spheres.
What’s more laughable is Rahul Gandhi echoing this frustration by declaring India’s economy “dead.” Really? Dead economies don’t post numbers like these in the past year:
- GST collection: $270 billion (highest ever)
- Vehicle sales: 25 million
- Taxpayers: 104 million
- Manufacturing PMI: 59.2 (among the world’s highest)
- Exports: $825 billion
- Jobs created: 46 million
- Forex reserves: $704 billion
- Sensex: 85,900 — all-time high
Is this what Rahul calls economic collapse? One wonders if the Congress scion even understands global economic indicators — or if he simply parrots whatever script is handed to him by his handlers, local or foreign.
Now contrast this with the current state of the U.S. economy:
- National debt: $37 trillion
- Federal Reserve losses: $77 billion
- F-16 production: Stalled
- F-35 production: Delayed
- Projected GDP growth: Just 1.6%
- Domestic demand: Slowing
- Job growth: Weakening
- Imports: Surging
And that’s not all. Multiple indicators suggest the U.S. economy will further suffer due to its misguided protectionist stance, with new tariffs effectively taxing its consumers.
The truth is this: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat is no hollow slogan. It’s a dynamic, results-driven vision that has made India a pharmaceutical powerhouse, an emerging arms exporter, and a rising space-tech innovator. From launching Chandrayaan-3 to exporting vaccines to 84 countries — including the United States — India is not just surviving. It is surging.
So let Trump whine and Rahul sulk. India’s trajectory is upward, unstoppable, and self-assured. Lies, tariffs, or propaganda — none will derail this journey.
It’s time the Opposition stops playing the enemy’s trumpet. And it’s time we call them out when they do.
