News Mania Desk / Piyal Chatterjee / 23rd October 2024
The Congress said on Wednesday that it expects the disengagement to return the situation to what it was in March 2020, days after China and India solidified an agreement on military patrols along the LAC in eastern Ladakh. The Congress also asked the government to consult the Indian people on the issue. Ahead of bilateral talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the BRICS summit in Russia, the opposition party made the claim.
“The Foreign Secretary has said that this is ‘leading to disengagement and eventually a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020’. We hope that India’s worst foreign policy setback in decades is being honourably resolved,” he said in a statement. “We expect that the disengagement will restore the status quo ante as it existed in March 2020,” he said. Ramesh alleged that “this sorry saga is a complete indictment” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gullibility and naivet regarding China.
The Congress leader stated that the government must gain the trust of the Indian people after reaching this agreement with the Chinese. He also demanded answers to crucial questions, including whether Indian troops will be able to patrol up to our claim line in Depsang to five patrolling points past the Bottleneck junction as they were able to do previously. He questioned whether our forces would be able to get to Demchok’s three patrolling locations that have been off-limits for almost four years.
“Are the ‘buffer zones’ that our government ceded to the Chinese, which included the site of a memorial in Rezang La to war hero and posthumous Param Vir Chakra awardee Major Shaitan Singh, now a thing of the past?” he said.
