Trump inauguration invite: Rahul Gandhi deliberately spoke falsehood, accuses Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during the Budget session of Parliament, at the Parliament House complex in New Delhi, on February 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Monday (February 3, 2025) accused Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of resorting to “falsehood” after the Congress leader suggested that the Minister’s visit to Washington in December was to manage an invite for the Prime Minister to Donald Trump’s inauguration as the U.S. president. “We would not send our Foreign Minister to the United States to get our Prime Minister invited to the U.S. President’s ‘coronation’,” Mr. Gandhi said in Lok Sabha while participating in a debate on the ‘Motion of Thanks’ to the President’s address. “Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi deliberately spoke a falsehood about my visit to the US in December 2024,” Mr. Jaishankar said in a post on ‘X’. The External Affairs Minister said he visited the U.S. to meet then Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NSA Jake Sullivan as well as to chair a meeting …








