Jaishankar said that the area where the Chinese are building a bridge over the Pangong Lake is under illegal occupation of China since the 1962 war.
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Tuesday hit back at Rahul Gandhi, who has been targeting the central government over the Chinese aggression along the LAC in eastern Ladakh. Jaishankar said it was PM Narendra Modi who sent the Indian Army to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in response to the troop deployment by China, not Rahul Gandhi. Jaishankar said that the opposition should honestly see what happened in 1962.
Speaking to ANI, Jaishankar said that the Modi government has increased the budget by five times to enhance the border infrastructure. The minister also said that the area where the Chinese are building a bridge over the Pangong lake is under illegal occupation of China since the 1962 war.
Jaishankar said, "When did that area actually come under Chinese control? They (Congress) must have some problem in understanding words starting with 'C'. I think they are deliberately misrepresenting the situation." The Chinese first came there in 1958 and the Chinese took over." This was in October 1962. Now you are going to blame the Modi government in 2023 for a bridge which was captured by the Chinese in 1962 and you don't have the integrity to say that this is the place where it happened.
Rajiv Gandhi went to Beijing in 1988... signed agreements in 1993 and 1996. I don't think it was wrong to sign those agreements. To stabilize the range. And they did, stabilizing the border," the minister said.
Jaishankar also said that the demands are not reasonable, the central government will not be able to come to any agreement.
Asked about Congress's allegation that the Modi government is defensive and reactive on the China issue, Jaishankar dismissed the claims, saying that China currently has the largest peacetime deployment along the border.
He said, 'If I have to sum up this thing of China, please don't buy this narrative that somewhere the government is on the defensive...somewhere we are being liberal. I ask people whether we were being lenient and who sent the Indian Army to the LAC (Line of Actual Control). Rahul Gandhi did not send him. Narendra Modi sent them," he said.
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