India/Modi will have to respond or force USA to completely denounce the article as pure heresay with no substance publicly in the least..
Reason as this article will become big for sure is, as other media houses uses it as source in coming days as the final truth. This will slowly with time have a political consequence. If opposition parties don't use it immediately, they will surely use it more & more as election heats up to ridicule Modi, that we lost 2 indeed as shown in video & was trying to hide incapacity of India... No doubt ISPR & opposition parties will collude to make it big. Its right now a small spark, but will definitely grow & spread, unless addressed & addressed quickly.