Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday picked upon the government’s disengagement plan along the Line of Actual Control in Pangong lake in Lada...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday picked upon the government’s disengagement plan along the Line of Actual Control in Pangong lake in Ladakh and accused it of conceding Indian territory to China.
“The truth is that the Prime Minister has given away the Indian territory to China,” Gandhi said during a press conference on Friday morning. “He must answer to the country.”
The Congress leader pointed out a part of Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s reply in the Parliament on Thursday where he had said that China will keep its troop presence in the North Bank area to east of Finger 8 along the Pangong lake, while Indian troops will be based at Dhan Singh Thapa Post near Finger 3.
“Yesterday defence minister made a statement on the situation in eastern Ladakh,” Gandhi said. “Now we find our troops are going to be stationed at Finger 3...Finger 4 is our territory. Now, we have moved from Finger 4 to Finger 3. Why has Mr [Narendra] Modi given up our territory to the Chinese?”
He further said that Singh did not say anything on the Depsang Plains area from where, Gandhi claimed, the Chinese troops had transgressed into Indian territory, ANI reported.
In a sharp attack on the the prime minister, Gandhi termed him as...
