‘China did not enter our territory, no posts taken’: PM at all-party meet on Ladakh clash
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© Mikhail Tereshchenko\TASS via Getty Images Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
NEW DELHI: The Chinese
neither entered our territory nor has any post been taken over by them,
underscored Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the all-party meet to discuss the
border incident along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh where
20 Indian soldiers died in the line of duty in brutal hand-to-hand combat with
the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Congress' Sonia
Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, Telangana Rashtra
Samithi leader K Chandrasekhar Rao, Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar,
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Stalin, YSR Congress Party's YS Jagan
Mohan Reddy and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray were among those who
attended the meeting.
Assuring the opposition parties, the PM said be it
deployment, action or counter-action our forces - be it on land in air or water
- are doing everything to protect our borders.
The infrastructure development in border areas has gained in
pace over the past years, said the PM, adding that it has strengthened our
patrolling capacity.
The immediate cause for the conflict at Galwan Valley in eastern
Ladakh isn’t known, although it could have been about Chinese soldiers dragging
their feet about removing some of the installations they erected in May in an
area India claims as its own. The troops have since disengaged, the Indian Army
said in a statement confirming the number of dead at 20.
Indian Army officials claimed 43 Chinese were killed or
seriously injured, citing radio intercepts and other intelligence. HT couldn’t
independently verify this.
These were the first Indian casualties in a border skirmish with
the PLA Army since October 1975 when Chinese troops ambushed an Indian
patrol in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tulung La sector and shot four soldiers dead.
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