Thiruvananthapuram:
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday accused the BJP-led Center of failing to contain Chinese aggression at the border. He launched an attack on the Narendra Modi-led dispensation, saying, “Unless we stop misleading the people saying that China has taken nothing and there is no change, the country is in danger of losing a significant amount of territory. ”
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said the Chinese aggression issue is not just a card but a much bigger problem.
“This cartographic aggression is a way for China to erase certain markers and when they feel vulnerability, they move off the map according to their idea,” Tharoor said.
He previously said there were about 65 points where both armies patrolled the border, and there had been no incidents for 45 years.
“Suddenly on 26 of these points, the Chinese army comes and establishes permanent positions, which means that our army, which used to patrol, can no longer patrol,” the congress leader said.
He claimed that Indian herders in Ladakh can no longer graze their sheep.
“Rahul Gandhi, who recently visited these shepherds, heard it from their own lips. Even a local BJP councilor said the same thing,” Mr Tharoor claimed.
He said the government has talked about showing off ‘Lal Aankhen’ (Red Eye) for the Chinese, but there are no red eyes, only red flags from the neighbor.
He said it is now of paramount importance that Congress and the Opposition keep the government on its feet.
Mr Tharoor said Foreign Minister S Jaishankar’s statement that Beijing had even issued such maps in the past, claiming areas not theirs, and that it was “an old custom” of China was not true .
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