India, Sept. 7 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday hit out at US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick over his recent remarks on India-US trade deal saying, "India doesn't have to say sorry about anything".

Responding to Washington's allegations on New Delhi buying Russian oil, Tharoor said the previous White House administration requested India to buy Russian oil to stabilise global oil prices. He was referring to Joe Biden administration, which had backed India's purchase of Russian oil to keep global prices stable.

Responding to the commerce secretary's remarks, Tharoor said, "I don't think we have anything to say sorry about at all. India has behaved with a great deal of maturity on all of this."

The Congress MP said that the ...