00:00See, there is a triple jhatka for Indian foreign policy.
00:03There is a direct link between the inflammatory, incendiary and provocative remarks made by
00:09Field Marshal Asin Munir and the April 22nd Pehergam terror attacks.
00:14And this very man is invited for a lunch by President Trump in the White House.
00:19This is a setback for Indian diplomacy.
00:23It's definitely a setback.
00:24The man who gave oxygen, masterminded, orchestrated the Pehergam terror attack, is now being invited
00:32for lunch by President Trump.
00:34Second, Michael Kurila, the chief of the US Central Command, calls Pakistan a phenomenal
00:41partner in counterterrorism operations.
00:43The first time.
00:45Pakistan, counterterrorism, phenomenal partner.
00:48It's a phenomenal perpetrator, not a phenomenal partner.
00:51And third, President Trump, 14 times has claimed that he mediated between India and Pakistan,
00:59which meant that Operation Sindhu had to be, you know, stopped, paused, as the Prime Minister
01:04says.
01:05And he used trade as an instrument.
01:08Now, for 37 days, the Prime Minister did not say anything.
01:12Now, today, we are told that he had a 35-minute call with President Trump.
01:17And there is a readout of what the Prime Minister is supposed to have said to Mr. Trump, President
01:22Trump.
01:23President Trump has also put out a statement from the White House.
01:28There is a difference between the two statements.
01:31Normally, there are these statements are different because they appeal to different audiences.
01:36So, my question is, is very simple.
01:40Prime Minister, there is a statement that the Prime Minister told the President Trump that America
01:46had no role, that we reject mediation, all that, which has been, this is what opposition
01:51parties, which is what the Indian National Congress has been demanding.
01:54But for 37 days, the Prime Minister has kept quiet.
01:58And today, we are being asked to believe that this is what he told President Trump.
02:02All I am saying is, President Trump's statement also talks about Europe.
02:08It talks about Middle East.
02:10Let that be.
02:11He also talks of international trade, bilateral relations.
02:15He talks of defense procurement.
02:17All that is not there in the Prime Minister's readout.
02:20However, let's take the Prime Minister's readout as the base.
02:24Why can't the Prime Minister call an all-party meeting tomorrow or day after tomorrow?
02:29Take the opposition parties' leaders into confidence and say the same thing which has been put
02:35out today by the Foreign Secretary, why is the Prime Minister getting others to speak on his
02:41behalf?
02:43Why can't the Prime Minister speak directly?
02:46Let him address the nation.
02:49Let him call the opposition leaders.
02:51We wanted, this is the reason why we wanted a parliament session, so that he could take the
02:56nation into confidence.
02:57But now the parliament session is going to open only on the 21st.
03:01It's going to, you know, begin on the 21st of July.
03:03So let him call an all-party meeting and let him say whatever he has said.
03:08It's taken him 37 days to say whatever he claims to have said to the President.
03:15Fine.
03:15He has had a 35-minute phone call.
03:18He has said certain things.
03:20Let him say the same thing to opposition leaders in an all-party meeting.
03:26Why can't he do that?
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