Questioning the normalisation of ties with China, the Congress Tuesday claimed that the neighbouring state was inactive occupying Indian territory. It said the Modi Government had not yet clarified if the concern on the LAC successful Eastern Ladakh was the aforesaid arsenic it was earlier the Chinese incursions triggered a subject standoff.
“The Modi authorities has not yet satisfactorily explained to the state wherefore this is the close clip to normalise relations with China. Ever since the Chinese occupied 2,000 sq km of territory successful Eastern Ladakh that had been accessed by Indian patrols until May 2020, the radical and the Armed Forces of the state person held that the Government indispensable importune connected restoration of the presumption quo ante (previously existing authorities of affairs),” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said successful a statement.
Ramesh claimed that Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi had said: “We privation to spell backmost to the presumption quo of April 2020… thereafter we volition beryllium looking astatine disengagement, de-escalation and mean absorption of the LAC.”
On Monday, marking a large diplomatic breakthrough aft the disengagement process betwixt India and China was completed past November, New Delhi and Beijing decided connected a slew of measures to amended bilateral exchanges, including resuming Kailash Mansarovar Yatra successful the summertime this year.
Targeting PM Modi, Ramesh said these measures look to beryllium a continuation of the “pusillanimity” that led the PM to “falsely claim”: “Na koi hamari seema mein ghus aaya hai, na hullo koi ghusa hua hai (No 1 has entered retired territory)”.
“Even arsenic captious areas look off-limits to our troops, this alleged normalisation volition lone amplify the trends whose lone beneficiaries look to beryllium the Prime Minister’s cronies and financiers,” helium said.