New Delhi: BJP leader Amit Malviya on Wednesday hit out at Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh for terming a recent US military contract involving Pakistan as a “diplomatic setback” for India, calling the remark a deliberate distortion of facts.

In a sharp response on X, Malviya, who heads the BJP’s IT Cell, said, “Not quite the ‘diplomatic setback’ some are trying to project. The recent US contract notification isn’t about any new strategic shift — it’s part of a replacement and maintenance cycle for supplies first made in 2006. Such contracts are routine, often involving allied and non-allied nations alike, with strict end-use monitoring.”

He further accused the Congress of either “ignorance or deliberate distortion,” saying that India’s current global standing allows it to engage fro

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