Congress president and Rajya Sabha Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday hit out at the Modi government after the White House issued a factsheet on the trade deal between India and the US. Kharge posted on X: “Truth of the ‘Trap Deal’ is now slowly coming out !... We were told that the Indo-US Joint Statement said nothing on Russian oil, even though Mr. Trump publicly tweeted otherwise. The utility of red sorghum imports to India was mentioned in the Joint Statement, but that utility pertaining to ‘animal feed’ has now mysteriously vanished in the White House factsheet of Feb 9, 2026…. This directly means that the US is not allowing India to buy cheap oil for its people.”

Source: The Telegraph February 11, 2026 01:09 UTC