Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Continued Attack on Government Above China Line (File)
New Delhi:
India will pay “huge price due to cowardly government actions,” Congressman Rahul Gandhi tweeted Saturday afternoon as he continued his unrelenting criticism of the center on Ladakh violence and confrontation last month. subsequent to the Indo-Chinese border.
Gandhi, who repeatedly accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “surrendering” to Chinese aggression along the border, said: “China has taken our land and the government of India is behaving like Chamberlain. This will further embolden China. “
The Congress chief also attached a short video of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh speaking to soldiers in Ladakh on Friday. In the clip, Singh says that if there is no guarantee, talks can resolve tensions, “not an inch of our earth can be taken by a power in the world.”
The Prime Minister made similar statements during his visit last month.
China has taken our land and GOI behaves like Chamberlain. This will further encourage China.
India will pay a huge price because of GOI’s cowardly actions. pic.twitter.com/5ewIFvj5wy
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 18, 2020
However, Congress remains unconvinced by the government’s statements and the handling of this case, repeatedly recalling a comment by the Prime Minister at the June multi-stakeholder meeting.
Prime Minister Modi had declared: “Neither anyone on our territory nor any of our posts is captured.” His office issued a clarification but Congress interpreted this to mean that the territory had been ceded to China.
Rahul Gandhi’s “Chamberlain” referred to former former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who followed a policy of appeasement towards Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Politics, which many have since viewed as an ill-advised decision, allowed Hitler to expand his territory under agreements that saw Britain concede the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia.
Intended to give Britain time to recover from the First World War, the policy failed after Hitler broke the agreement to occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia. Six months later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.
Gandhi has been tweeting regularly since 20 Indian soldiers were killed by China in the Galwan Valley region of eastern Ladakh. He also regularly asked if Indian territory had in fact been ceded to China after this clash and skirmishes around the Pangong Lake region in May.
The claim appears to be supported by satellite images acquired by GalacticGaming which show that China has penetrated 423 meters into Indian territory.
Following high-level military talks, mutual disengagement took place, with each party conceding two kilometers. However, the move prompted opposition leaders to ask why Indian soldiers were being pulled out of Indian territory.
Gandhi referred to an online media report last week, entitled “Misleading government media on the Chinese disengagement along the LAC region”; a day earlier, he accused the Prime Minister of deceiving the nation.
