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Modi govt 'buckled under US pressure' at IMF: Cong
First India Jaipur
|May 18, 2025
A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said any financial assistance to Pakistan is no less than terror funding and urged the IMF to reconsider its assistance to the neighbouring country, the Congress said Saturday that the Narendra Modi government had “simply buckled under US pressure” at the IMF Executive Board meeting when the loans were deliberated upon.
Congress general secretary for communications Jairam Ramesh said Singh is now criticising the IMF for approving loans to Pakistan on May 9, 2025, “but on April 29th itself — before the Modi government woke up—the Congress had
This story is from the May 18, 2025 edition of First India Jaipur.
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