New Delhi, March 6 -- After US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced that the US was implementing a 30-day waiver for India allowing for the purchase Russian oil in light of the West Asia crisis, the Congress went out all guns blazing against the Government.

Congress' Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari was the first to issue a sharp retort accusing the Government of not understanding what sovereignty means.

"Issuing a 30 day waiver - the sanctimonious language of condemnation 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 deafening. Does it not understand what sovereignty mea...