Published 12:41 IST, May 12th 2020
Subramanian Swamy slams Congress as Adhir Ranjan deletes 'harsh abusive' tweet about China
BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy took a jibe at the Congress over Adhir Ranjan deleting a tweet slamming China for its LAC violation in Sikkim
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After Congress leer hir Ranjan Chowdhury deleted a tweet slamming China for violating Indian air along LAC, senior BJP leer and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy took a jibe at party hinting that senior leership within Congress was worried about retaliation.
Alongside heated scuffle between Chinese People's Liberation Army troops and Indian troops along LAC in rth Sikkim, Air Force was forced to rush its fighter jet patrols in Lakh after Chinese military choppers were found to be flying close to Line of Actual Control on Tuesday. " Chinese military helicopters were flying very close to Line of Actual Control. After ir movement was picked up, Indian Air Force fighter jets flew patrols in area," government sources told news ncy ANI.
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Reacting to this hir Ranjan Chowdhury h attacked China in a w-deleted tweet stating that India knew how to 'defang vemous snakes' with many taking his threat to be related to Taiwan which is furiously mobilising support to attend World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting on May 18. However, China is actively curbing its representation since it claims that Taiwan is part of its territory under its "One China Principle".
Border stand off in Sikkim
Indian Army sources on Sunday morning stated that defence forces were involved in a stand-off with ir Chinese counterparts near India-China border in rth Sikkim. confrontation is reported to have taken place near Naku La Sector and was solved later after local-level talks between authorities.
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Mir injuries were reported on both sides, and Indian Army sources went on to state that as per established protocol, stand-off was resolved mutually. Such kind of an incident has taken place after some amount of time in region, almost 2 years after Dokalam stand-off.
(With ncy Inputs)
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12:41 IST, May 12th 2020