Trump's new tune regarding India (file photo)
Digital Desk, New Delhi. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "not very happy" with him as India has to pay heavy tariffs due to stopping the purchase of Russian oil.
Trump said that my relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very good, but he is not very happy with me because you know that due to not doing oil trade, he now has to pay very high tariffs.
Modi came to meet me
Donald Trump, in his address at the meeting of House Republican Party members, also claimed that 'Prime Minister Modi had come to meet me and said, 'Sir, can I meet you?' Yes.' 'I have a very good relationship with him. They are not that happy with me because you know they are paying very high tariffs now because they are not trading oil with Russia, but now they have reduced it to a great extent.
Let us tell you that America has imposed 50 percent tariff on India, which includes 25 percent tariff on the purchase of Russian oil. Trump also said that India has told him that it has been waiting for Apache helicopters for five years. “We are changing it,” he said. We are changing it. India has ordered 68 Apache helicopters.