Rahul Gandhi assaults Modi over Sino-India standoff; says Chinese know PM is ‘scared’
Image Source : PTI Rahul Gandhi assaults Modi over Sino-India standoff; says Chinese know PM is ‘scared’
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Sino-India border standoff, charging him with being ‘scared’ of the japanese neighbour.
Before the stand-off at japanese Ladakh, the place the disengagement course of has been accomplished with the withdrawal of troops, weapons and different army {hardware} from the North and South banks of Pangong lake areas, the Chinese ‘examined the concept in Dokhlam (in 2017),’ he mentioned.
‘Essentially the Chinese occupied sure strategic areas in our nation. They first examined the concept in Dokhlam.
They examined the concept to see how would India react they usually observed India didn’t react. And then they carried out the concept once more in Ladakh and in addition I imagine in Arunachal Pradesh,’ he mentioned.
Launching his three-day tour of Tamil Nadu forward of the April 6 Assembly polls, the Congress chief, whereas interacting with advocates right here, reiterated his ‘hum do hamare do’ jibe on the ruling dispensation on the Centre.
Speaking intimately over the border standoff, Gandhi mentioned Modi’s first response to the Chinese incursions was ‘that no one has come into India.’ ‘That indicated to the Chinese that the Prime Minister of India is frightened of them. That is the message he indicated to the Chinese, that he’s frightened of them and the Chinese understood it.
And since then the Chinese have negotiated on that precept,’ he mentioned.
‘They know that the Prime Minister of India can’t stand as much as them. Mark my phrases, our land in Depsang, which is crucial land, will not be going to return again to beneath this authorities.
The Prime Minister won’t get that land again. He will fake all the things is sorted out, however India goes to lose that territory,’ he charged.
Giving such a message to the Chinese was ‘very harmful to the longer term as a result of the Chinese aren’t going to cease with Ladakh,’ he alleged.
He mentioned the federal government beneath the Congress ‘at all times handled the Chinese with none hesitation.’ ‘The Chinese understood very properly that India can’t be pushed round. Even in 2013 when the Chinese entered into India, we took motion that pressured them, pressured them to compromise…we went and occupied different areas,’ he mentioned.
‘They have now understood the Prime Minister does not have the braveness…the Chinese know the Prime Minister goes to compromise,’ he added.
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