Indo-US trade deal 'wholesale surrender', it's a sell out: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: (Feb 11) In a no-holds-barred attack on the Modi government, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the India-US interim trade deal was a "wholesale surrender", with India's energy security handed over to America and farmers' interests compromised.

Participating in the debate on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Gandhi claimed that Indian interests had been "surrendered" under the trade deal to protect the BJP's financial architecture.

Slamming the Indo-US deal, Gandhi drew an analogy of how in martial arts after securing a grip, the next step is a chokehold, and then the opponent taps to give up.