NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has once again contradicted leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi‘s stance, dismissing US President Donald Trump‘s assertion that the “Indian economy is dead.”A day after Rahul Gandhi backed Trump and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “killing” the economy, Tharoor said that such is not the case.While talking to reporters outside the Parliament, the Thiruvananthapuram MP said, “This is not the case, and we all know it.”Earlier, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha claimed “the Indian economy is dead” because “PM Modi killed it” and listed five reasons which, according to him, led to the decline of the world’s fourth-largest economy.“The Adani-Modi partnership; Demonetisation and a flawed GST; A failed ‘Assemble in India’ initiative; MSMEs wiped out; Farmers crushed,” Rahul said in a social media post on X.“Modi has destroyed the future of India’s youth because there are no jobs,” he added.Additionally, while talking to reporters, Rahul also claimed that everyone except PM Modi and Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman knows that India’s economy is dead. He also said that the US President has “stated facts.”“Everybody knows this except PM Modi and the Finance Minister. It is a dead economy. I am glad that the US President has stated facts… The entire world knows that BJP has ended the Indian economy to help Adani,” Rahul said.This comes after Trump took a sharp jab at India and Russia, suggesting that the two nations could “take their dead economies down together.”In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India — their tariffs are too high, among the highest in the world. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together.”Earlier, Trump announced a 25% tariff on all goods imported from India, along with an unspecified penalty, from August 1 after the two countries failed to reach an interim trade deal, triggering nervousness among exporters.