How credible is the declare that PM Modi turned down Trump?

US President Donald Trump, if India’s overseas secretary Vikram Misri is to be believed, on Wednesday listened to the Indian prime minister for 35 minutes on a cellphone name. Curiously, Misri learn out his assertion in Hindi in a video, which was additionally launched in Hindi as textual content. It was uncommon as a result of such statements are normally made in English to succeed in a world viewers however the emphasis on Hindi made it seem that the audience was again house in India.

Since then, PM Modi and his entourage have arrived in Croatia on their manner again to India from Canada, the place the PM ‘attended’ the G-7 summit’s outreach with invited heads of presidency. Whereas a one-to-one assembly with Canadian prime minister and G-7 president Mark Carney was essentially the most important engagement of the Indian PM, it was his telephonic discuss with the US president that continued to make waves via Wednesday.

Christopher Clary, a commentator on strategic affairs and the Indo-Pacific area, commented that it appeared that the US president solely requested, listened and enquired in the course of the 35-minute discuss, whereas the Indian PM was in command of the dialog.