New Delhi, June 19 -- The Congress on Thursday launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the PM's engagement with US President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit, alleging failures in defending India's strategic, economic and sovereign interests. In a statement issued by the party's foreign affairs department, it said: "The Congress had hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would leverage the G7 Summit in France as an opportunity to assert India's leadership role in the Global South and stridently defend India's energy sovereignty, economic interests, and strategic autonomy. Instead, the Summit exposed a troubling gap between rhetoric and results," the party said in the statement. The Congress accused Modi of failing to secure an Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions waiver that would have allowed India to continue importing Russian oil. "This is a missed opportunity, and further compounds the BJP government's repeated capitulation on matters of India's energy sovereignty," said the statement. The party also criticised Modi for remaining silent while Trump repeatedly claimed credit for helping secure a ceasefire after Operation Sindoor. According to the Congress, this could be interpreted either as a "tacit acceptance" of Trump's assertion or an "unwillingness" to challenge it publicly. Such silence, it said, undermined India's long-standing position against third-party mediation in bilateral matters. The opposition party criticised Modi for not raising the deaths of three Indian sailors in a tanker attack in the Gulf of Oman and the "unlawful sinking" of the Iranian vessel Iris Dena. It also remarked that Modi's "unwillingness" to defend India's interest and sovereignty as "worrying", accusing Modi of failing to secure favourable terms in the US-India trade deal while the country continually faces "economic warfare."...