Nirmala Sitharaman Slams ‘Friends Of Imperialists’ Defending Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin’ Remarks

Nirmala Sitharaman Slams ‘Friends Of Imperialists’ Defending Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin’ Remarks

NEW DELHI – Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has strongly condemned some Indian politicians and media people for trying to explain away the controversial comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro. Navarro said that “Brahmins” were benefiting from India’s purchase of Russian oil. Some people in India said that he was probably using the phrase in the American sense of “Boston Brahmins,” which refers to ri…

Describing the statement made on the Brahmins of Peter Navaro as misleading, the Indian Foreign Ministry rejected, Indian Foreign Ministry Rejected Peter Navarro’s Statement on Brahmins, Terming It Misleading

Inaccurate and misleading: India slams White House Advisor Navarro’s comments - South Asian Daily

(The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday rejected the White House Senior Advisor Peter Navarro’s continuous tirade against India, terming his remarks as “inaccurate and misleading statements”. “We have seen the inaccurate and misleading statements made by Mr. (Peter) Navarro and obviously, we reject them”, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during a weekly media briefing while responding to a question on Navarro’s “Brahmins profiting…