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Senior Congress Leader and MP Manish Tewari questioned the Centre over sovereignty as the United States allowed a 30-day waiver for India to purchase Russian oil amid a crisis in the Gulf hampering shipping routes that pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had earlier announced that the short-term measure to counter Iran during the conflict in West Asia, which has severely affected the Gulf countries supplying crude oil.
‘Issuing a 30 day waiver’- The sanctimonious language of condenscation drips with neo- imperial arrogance.
Are we a banana republic that we need the permission of the US to secure our energy security imperatives ?
The silence of an otherwise overly loquacious government is… https://t.co/GmzKEWZmvp
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) March 6, 2026
In an X post, Tewari asked if India required permission from the US to decide on its energy sources. Slamming the US for its “neo-imperial arrogance,” the Congress leader wrote, “‘Issuing a 30-day waiver’- The sanctimonious language of condensation drips with neo- imperial arrogance. Are we a banana republic that we need the permission of the US to secure our energy security imperatives?”
