India, July 31 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi hit out at US President Donald Trump's "arrogance" after he called the Indian economy, which is among the top five economies of the world, "dead".

Hours after Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on India, and an unspecified penalty over the country's purchases from Russia, the US President said, "I don't care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care."

He noted that the US has done very little business with India and described the country's tariffs "among the highest in the world".

The Sena UBT MP said that such remarks can come only from a place of arrogance or ignorance.

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