Congress sought the government to take the people of India into confidence and said many questions remain over the PM Modi government’s announcement regarding the agreement.
Days after India and China announced an agreement on their militaries patrolling along the LAC in eastern Ladakh, the Congress on Wednesday hit out at the Centre over the four-year-long standoff, calling it an “indictment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gullibility and naivete.”
It asked the government to take the people of India into confidence and said many questions remained about PM Modi government’s agreement announcement.
In a letter issued by the party’s General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, Congress posted six direct questions to the BJP-led Centre on India’s truce with China in eastern Ladakh.
The party also targeted Prime Minister Modi for visiting China five times and meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Many questions remain over the Modi government’s claims of an agreement on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) patrolling arrangements with China. Our statement on this vital issue of national importance pic.twitter.com/VruDuzG2uG
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) October 23, 2024
“This sad saga is a complete indictment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gullibility and naivety about China. As CM of Gujarat, Modi was grandly hosted by China thrice. As PM, he made five official vacations to China and had 18 meetings with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, including a playful jhoola session on the banks of the Sabarmati on his 64th birthday,” the letter mentioned.
Congress also raked up the prime minister over his statements in the wake of the Galway clash as it questioned it to have legitimized Chinese aggression.
“India’s standing hit its lowest point on June 19, 2020, when the PM gave his infamous clean chit to China, saying, “Na koi hamari seema mein ghus aaya hai, na hi koi ghusa hua hai.”
It was prepared just four days after the clash in Galwan in which 20 of our brave soldiers made the supreme sacrifice. A profound insult to our fallen soldiers, it also legitimized China’s aggression and thereby impeded the timely resolution of the standoff at the LAC, said the party.
