AAP MP Ashok Mittal requires boycott of U.S. comfortable drink firms at LPU over tariff hike

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal on Saturday (August 23, 2025) mentioned that if the 50% tariff hike on Indian items comes into impact on August 27, all comfortable drinks and beverage firms of the United States of America will likely be banned from the campus of Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab’s Jalandhar.

“Why shouldn’t there be a boycott? As a citizen of India, as a businessman from Punjab, as LPU’s Founder-Chancellor and as a Member of Parliament, I believe the transfer is completely justified. In truth, my boycott name has resonated with scores of individuals throughout the globe,” he mentioned in a press release.  

Earlier, Mr. Mittal wrote an open letter to U.S. President Donald J. Trump on August 7, the place he described the tariff hike as ‘unfair’ and disruptive.

He urged Mr. Trump to roll again the choice and return to the rules of dialogue, not diktats. In the letter, he had quipped, “What if 146 crore Indians provoke a strategic restriction of U.S. companies?”