New Delhi: Hours after the US-India interim trade deal framework was unveiled, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, in an exclusive conversation with Republic Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, hit back at Opposition's claims that tariffs on Indian goods have gone up and tariffs on US goods have been reduced to zero. The Union Minister stated that the criticism stemmed from an inability to accept that an “absolutely wonderful” trade deal is being finalised between India and the US, remarking that for the Opposition, “angur khatte hain.”

A few days ago, I'm sure you must have heard Mr. Rahul Gandhi repeatedly asking, when will the trade deal happen? It's really sour grapes, angur khatte hai. They're not able to reconcile with the fact that an absolutely wonderful trade deal has been entered into between the US and India. Possibly, they're also worried that if lakhs and millions of our youth, our women power, will get new opportunities, if the economy flourishes and does very well, they will further have to go down. And maybe instead of the next 25 years, they're looking at 50 years in oblivion.

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