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US Tariff War: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday invoked the 1977 incident to attack Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Dubey in an X post highlighted that in 1977, then Prime Minister Morarji Desai refused to criticise his predecessor Indira Gandhi over action against Pakistan after US President Richard Nixon's press conference in which he had targeted the Congress stalwart, saying he could not trust Nixon, despite differences with Gandhi.

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"This confidential document is from 1977 when then-UP President Nixon held a press conference on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Pakistani action. At that time, Prime Minister Morarji Desai and then-Defence Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram held a press conference against Nixon and stated that domestic disputes or differences cannot become a weapon for external powers. But today's @INCIndia and its leader @RahulGandhi ji are providing shelter to conspiracies against India to defame the entire India and create anarchy," his x post with attaching the confidential document read.

Dubey's X post comes amid Rahul's criticism to the Modi government over the ongoing Trump tariff war.

Dubey Accuses Rahul Of 'Distorting' Facts Of 1971 War

This is not the first time that Dubey cited a historical event to slam Rahul. Earlier on July 30, the BJP MP accused the Congress leader of using "distorted and inaccurate facts" in the Lok Sabha during his reference to Indira Gandhi's conduct of the 1971 war against Pakistan. He urged Speaker Om Birla to reprimand Rahul in the House for his "habitual delinquency".

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Dubey, in a letter to Birla, appealed to the Speaker to issue a "show cause" notice to Rahul for his "questionable utterances", adding the BJP MP also sought the House's permission to raise the issue in the House.

The Lok Sabha LoP had said during the discussion on Operation Sindoor that if PM Modi has even 50 per cent of the courage that Indira Gandhi had shown during the war with Pakistan, then clearly he must say in Parliament that US President Donald Trump is lying in his claims that he mediated ceasefire between India and Pakistan. He had said India Gandhi, his grandmother, had given complete operational freedom to the armed forces, while the Modi government had "tied their hands behind their back".

(With PTI inputs)