New Delhi: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, who has once again claimed that US President Donald Trump compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “surrender” during the India-Pakistan conflict, said he was only saying the same thing Trump has repeated “11 times”.“Trump … has said 11 times that Modi stopped due to pressure from him. I am only saying what Trump is saying and has said 11 times,” Gandhi said on Friday (June 6) to mediapersons.He continued: “Modi has not made any statement on Trump’s comments. Modi should say that Trump is lying.”Earlier in the day, Gandhi claimed while addressing an event in Bihar’s Rajgir that Trump had repeatedly said he made Modi surrender and that the latter was unable to say that the US president was lying because he was speaking the truth.“You know that he has a habit of surrendering,” Gandhi said referring to the Union government’s decision to enumerate castes during the next population census, something that had been a demand of opposition parties in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.“Trump has said 11 times – 11 times – that ‘I made Narendra Modi surrender’. He’s said it 11 times, in public. Modi is not able to object to this. Modi is not able to say that Trump is lying. Because it is the truth,” the Congress MP alleged.On Tuesday, Gandhi while addressing a function in Bhopal claimed that Modi obeyed Trump’s diktat to ‘surrender’.“Trump gestured from there [the US], picked up the phone and asked Modi ‘what are you doing?’ ‘Narendra…surrender’. Aur, ji hazoor karke, Narendra Modi ji ne Trump ke ishaare ka paalan kiya. [‘Saying yes sir, Modi followed Trump’s instructions’],” Gandhi said.As the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan ended on May 10, Trump was the first to announce the cessation of hostilities, claiming also that the US mediated the ceasefire between the two South Asian nations.He has since repeated this stance and also claimed to have used trade as leverage during a mediation effort: “I said, come on, we’re gonna do a lot of trade with you guys. Let’s stop it. Let’s stop it. If you stop it, we’ll do trade. If you don’t stop it, we’re not gonna do any trade.“People have never really used trade the way I used it, that I can tell you, and all of a sudden, they said, I think we’re gonna stop.”Since then the US government has said in a court filing that Trump used trade access as incentive to “avert a full-scale war” between India and Pakistan.The Modi government has denied claims that the US mediated the cessation of hostilities or that trade came up in discussions between Indian and American officials during the conflict.Modi has not personally addressed the claims.Meanwhile, the BJP has called Gandhi’s mentality “sick” and “dangerous”.“By making extremely cheap, low-level statements, the self-proclaimed, self-styled, supreme leader, the leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi, is telling the world that even after becoming the LoP, he lacks seriousness and maturity that the post requires,” BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said on Wednesday.He added: “The manner in which Rahul Gandhi compared our armed forces’ valour and the briefing given by our armed forces on Operation Sindoor’s success with surrender, shows how sick and dangerous his mentality has become.”