Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (file photo)

New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge The Prime Minister said on Monday Narendra Modi and US President donald trump Sharing similarities in “Vanash”, he said that this is why they keep praising each other.Kharge’s comments come a day after Trump made a surprise live audio call to US Ambassador to India Sergio Gore, who was attending an event in New Delhi, and told him that he (Trump) “loves” both PM Modi and India.Read this also ‘I love Prime Minister Modi’: Trump makes sudden live call during US Embassy event in Delhi – VideoGore put the call on speaker and the conversation was recorded on video, which later went viral on social media.Kharge told ANI, “When people share similar qualities – one is destroying the world, while the other is destroying the country – that is the similarity between the two. That is why they admire each other. As the saying goes: ‘You praise me, and I will praise you,’ so it is their mutual admiration.”In his surprise live audio call, Trump spoke to US Ambassador Gore, who was attending the US Embassy’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America in New Delhi.“I just want to say hello to everybody. I love the prime minister. Modi is great. He’s my friend,” Trump said.He said that relations between the US and India have “never been closer”, emphasizing that India can “trust” him and the United States, and said that the US is “doing well” with a record economy and stock market. Trump also reiterated his strong support for PM Modi and described himself as a “big, big fan” of the prime minister.Addressing his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is currently on a visit to India for the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Summit, Trump praised him as the “greatest”, saying he will “go down as the greatest Secretary of State in American history” and asked him to convey his good wishes to PM Modi.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Rubio will join their Australian and Japanese counterparts at the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting on Tuesday.