New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Leh and addressed frontline soldiers, the Congress on Saturday reminded him that to the time has come to follow his "raj dharma" and tell the people of the country about the reality of Chinese "incursions".
Continuing his attack, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that patriotic Ladakhis are raising their voice against Chinese intrusion and asked the government to listen to them, asserting that ignoring their warning will cost India dearly.
Gandhi also shared a media report which showed some Ladakhis alleging that the Chinese have been occupying Indian territory in Ladakh.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also said that countless residents of Ladakh who love their motherland are saying that China is occupying their land.
Later in the day, while addressing a virtual press meet, Congress leader Kapil Sibal used satellite images of Ladakh's Pangong Tso from May and June to show Chinese structures in the area and asked the prime minister to at least speak the truth about it.
Sibal also asked Modi to stop doing the politics of "illusion and delusion" and showing "red eyes" to China, and protect Indian territory.
"The times warrant India to look eye-to-eye at China and unequivocally tell them to retreat from their illegal and brazen occupation of Indian territory. Prime Minister, this is the only 'raj dharma' that you must follow," Sibal said.
Posing a set of five questions to the PM, he asked Modi to say whether the actual picture of "Chinese occupation of our territory" up to the "Finger 4 Ridge" in the Pangong Tso area depicts the truth on the ground.
"They say 'pictures do not lie'. Will the PM now tell the nation -- is this Indian territory on which radars, helipad and other structures have been built by the Chinese in a brazen act of transgression?", he asked.
"Have the Chinese occupied our territory in Galwan Valley, including 'Patrol Point 14', where our 20 jawans of the 16 Bihar Regiment made the supreme sacrifice? Has China also occupied Indian territory in Hot Springs?" the Congress leader asked.
"Has China occupied our territory up to 'Y-Junction' (18 kms inside the LAC) in the Depsang plains, threatening India's strategic DBO airstrip, which is the lifeline for our military supplies to the Siachen glacier and Karakoram pass?" he asked.
On Modi saying this is not the India of 1962 and the era of expansionism is over, the former Union Minister said that Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of the country, had told China then that India will never accept the Chinese claim-line.