India's Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has demanded prime minister Narendra Modi make a personal statement about US President Donald Trump's comments about Kashmir. He knows that Modi would never meet his demand. He is not satisfied with what India's foreign minister has said in this regard. Making a clarification in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha the other day, S Jaishankar said that prime minister Modi never asked US president Trump to help mediate with Pakistan their dispute over the Kashmir region. Trump had told reporters on Monday that Modi had asked him during a meeting in Japan last month if he would like to be a mediator on Kashmir. According to Trump's Chief Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow, 'the President doesn't make things up'.
That Modi knows that he cannot deny it because he had actually said it is a fact. He will never confront the US President for 'misquoting' him. Nevertheless, this development has thrown up an opportunity for India to allow third-party involvement in a bilateral dispute for its resolution.