New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi said that the Government has sold Bharat Mata. Participating in the debate on the Union Budget Rahul Gandhi mounted a sharp attack on the Government over the India-US trade deal framework, accusing the Modi administration of having sold off the nation and terming it as a wholesale surrender.

He said in his speech that he does not believe that any Indian PM, including Narendra Modi, would agree to such a deal unless there is a chokehold on him. Why has he sold India? because the US are choking him. They have a grip on his neck, he questioned.

He accused the Government of opening the door to mechanized American farms, thereby crushing India’s small farmers, and called the move disgraceful.  Rahul Gandhi said that no PM before had not done such a thing, nor would any after him. How can you come to this House and defend this? Are you not ashamed of what you are giving away? Are you not ashamed of selling India? You have sold our mother Bharat Mata?

He asserted that the trade agreement had undermined farmers’ interests, destroyed the textile sector, and handed India’s energy security to the US. Calling it a surrender of the future of 1.5 billion Indians, he said it was driven by the need to protect the BJP’s financial architecture, which he said is facing scrutiny in the US. The US will decide who we buy oil from. They will monitor.