New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Congress Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram on Saturday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters and economic commentators welcoming the 10 per cent tariffs on Indian goods by the United States, asking them to condemn the "weaponisation of tariffs" by Donald Trump.

In an X post, Chidambaram criticised US President Trump's move to levy 10 per cent tariffs on countries after the US Supreme Court decided against the trade policy. The Congress leader called it Trump's "desperation" to levy 'reciprocal' tariffs.

Slamming the economic commentators, he alleged that they were "obliquely justifying" US' action to levy 10 per cent tariffs, which stands much higher than the earlier average of about three per cent before Trum...