Peter Navarro, commerce adviser to President Trump, accused India of funding Russia's warfare in Ukraine, saying “Brahmins are profiteering by shopping for Russian oil,” and defended the U.S. choice to impose 50% tariffs on Indian items, calling India the “Maharaja of tariffs.” Indian leaders, together with BJP MP Dinesh Sharma and Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, condemned the comment as factually fallacious, culturally insensitive, and damaging to India–U.S. relations already strained by commerce and power disputes.
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