Don’t hold talks with ‘betrayer’ China: Mulayam on incursion
27 April 2013 8:16 AM IST
Alleging that the Centre was showing ‘weakness’ in dealing with the issue of Chinese incursion in Ladakh, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday said instead of holding talks with ‘betrayer’ China, the ‘intruders should be chased away’.
‘Centre is showing weakness on the issue of Chinese incursions... They (Chinese troops) have entered 10-20 km inside our territory... instead of talking to China, which is a betrayer, the intruders should be chased away,’ Yadav said at an event at the Samajwadi Party office here.
Ridiculing the UPA government, Yadav sought to know what were intelligence agencies like IB and RAW, and external affairs and defence ministers doing as they could not get prior information about the incursions.
‘Now I have heard some minister is going for talks with folded hands to request China to leave Indian teritory... Will China leave now? It will not,’ he said.
‘I have been cautioning the government for past several years and even raised the issue in Lok Sabha, which is recorded. Now, when China has intruded, the government does not have the courage to send them back,’ he claimed.
‘I will go to him (PM) after 28 April or maybe on Saturday evening and tell him, if asked, about my information. Why the government did not take it seriously earlier and invited me for discussion on the issue? Now, when China has intruded at 17-18 thousand feet, it will be difficult to send them back. It will not leave with talks only,’ he said.
CHINESE TROOPS HAVE ERECTED TENTS 19KM INSIDE INDIAN TERRITORY: GOVT
The government on Friday told a parliamentary committee that Chinese troops have pitched tents 19km deep inside the Indian territory in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir and that efforts are underway to ensure that the status quo is maintained.
Defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and some other senior officials informed the parliamentary standing committee on defence that India has deployed forces to ‘keep a close watch on the border’, sources told .
Sharma and other officials appeared before the committee after BJP members Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prakash Javadekar wanted to know the actual ground situation in Depsang sector of Ladakh where the Chinese incursion took place in Daulat Beg Oldie area a week ago.
The meeting of the committee was cut short as members were dissatisfied with the insufficient information provided by the officials.
‘Centre is showing weakness on the issue of Chinese incursions... They (Chinese troops) have entered 10-20 km inside our territory... instead of talking to China, which is a betrayer, the intruders should be chased away,’ Yadav said at an event at the Samajwadi Party office here.
Ridiculing the UPA government, Yadav sought to know what were intelligence agencies like IB and RAW, and external affairs and defence ministers doing as they could not get prior information about the incursions.
‘Now I have heard some minister is going for talks with folded hands to request China to leave Indian teritory... Will China leave now? It will not,’ he said.
‘I have been cautioning the government for past several years and even raised the issue in Lok Sabha, which is recorded. Now, when China has intruded, the government does not have the courage to send them back,’ he claimed.
‘I will go to him (PM) after 28 April or maybe on Saturday evening and tell him, if asked, about my information. Why the government did not take it seriously earlier and invited me for discussion on the issue? Now, when China has intruded at 17-18 thousand feet, it will be difficult to send them back. It will not leave with talks only,’ he said.
CHINESE TROOPS HAVE ERECTED TENTS 19KM INSIDE INDIAN TERRITORY: GOVT
The government on Friday told a parliamentary committee that Chinese troops have pitched tents 19km deep inside the Indian territory in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir and that efforts are underway to ensure that the status quo is maintained.
Defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and some other senior officials informed the parliamentary standing committee on defence that India has deployed forces to ‘keep a close watch on the border’, sources told .
Sharma and other officials appeared before the committee after BJP members Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Prakash Javadekar wanted to know the actual ground situation in Depsang sector of Ladakh where the Chinese incursion took place in Daulat Beg Oldie area a week ago.
The meeting of the committee was cut short as members were dissatisfied with the insufficient information provided by the officials.
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