Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on October 16 that there was no conversation between PM Modi and US President Trump

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday that he had raised questions with the central government regarding US President Donald Trump’s recent statements.

According to Ramesh, Trump has brought up India’s oil imports from Russia three times in the past five days and is likely to raise the issue again during his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest.

Ramesh added that Trump claimed to have spoken with Prime Minister Modi, and that India had assured the US it would stop importing oil from Russia. However, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denied any knowledge of such a conversation. Trump, in turn, h

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