Rahul Gandhi doubles down on 'China occupied Indian land' claim, alleges PM's inaction

On Wednesday, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi castigated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged silence on China amid faceoff at LAC. Repeating his claim that China has occupied 1200 sq.km of Indian land, Wayan MP accused PM of deliberating hiding this information from people. Terming it as biggest issue facing country at moment, he questioned PM Modi on when he was planning to throw out Chinese Army.

It is pertinent to te that PM and his Cabinet colleagues have consistently maintained that China has t intruded into Indian territory. In a veiled dig at Congress party, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently told Parliament that China is in illegal occupation of 38,000 sq. km in Lakh apart from 5,180 sq. km of Indian territory in PoK ceded by Pakistan in 1963. He me it clear that  LAC boundary issue remains unresolved due to China's reluctance to recognise tritional and customary alignment of border. 

Speaking to media, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi remarked, "Did you hear him say anything on China? Have you heard him say word China over last couple of months? Why do you think he is t saying it? Because he doesn't want to take attention of people of this country to fact that Chinese have occupied our land. Chinese have occupied 1200 sq.km of our territory. I asked Prime Minister on when are you planning to remove Chinese from our territory. Do you think re is any bigger issue than that issue right w? It is biggest issue. PM doesn't have a word to say about it. It is a strange thing."

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LAC faceoff

 faceoff at Line of Actual Control was exacerbated when 20 Indian Army soldiers including a Commanding Officer were martyred in Galwan Valley on June 15 when de-escalation process was underway. This was followed by multiple attempts of provocation by Chinese side at end of August. Multiple rounds of Corps Commander-level and WMCC meetings have taken place between two sides to resolve crisis. In September, both Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met ir respective Chinese counterparts in Moscow.

During 7th round of Corps Commander-level talks held on October 12 at Chushul, two sides tried to understand each or's positions on disengment of troops along LAC. In "constructive" meeting, India and China agreed to implement consensus reached by ir respective leers. Moreover, re was also a consensus on maintaining dialogue through military and diplomatic channels in order to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution of disengment at earliest. 

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