Ramesh claimed that PM Modi's comments were "disrespectful" and "disgraceful" to the warriors..........
Digital desk: The Congress harshly criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comments made in an interview with the US magazine Newsweek on the dispute over the border between China and India on Thursday. According to the party, PM Modi was acting in a "cowardly worst" and his answer was "feeble and ineffective".
In an interview with Newsweek, whose excerpts were published on the US magazine's website on Wednesday, Prime Minister Modi called for stable ties between China and India and stated that the border conflict between the two nations needed to be "urgently addressed."
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote on his X, "In his interview with Newsweek, a US magazine, the Prime Minister was at his cowardly worst. His only comment on China’s repeated infringements on Indian sovereignty was that the India-China border situation needs to be addressed urgently to resolve the 'abnormality' in the bilateral interactions."
"The Prime Minister had a chance to send a powerful message to China. However, his ineffective and feeble response is likely to only encourage China further in asserting its claim on Indian territory," he alleged.
Ramesh claimed that PM Modi's comments were "disrespectful" and "disgraceful" to the soldiers who gave their lives protecting the border between India and China.
He insisted that the Prime Minister apologize to the 140 crore Indians for his June 2020 claim that no one had entered the country or taken a job.
"The Prime Minister should apologise to the 140 crore Indians for deceiving them on national television on June 19th, 2020, with his statement ‘Na Koi Ghusa Hai, Na Hi Koi Ghus Aaya Hai’ (nobody entered India and nobody has entered any post) and keeping the nation in dark about his failures in protecting the borders with China," he said on X.
In the Newsweek interview, Prime Minister Modi expressed the hope that positive and constructive bilateral interaction at the diplomatic and military levels between China and India will enable them to maintain and restore tranquility and peace across their borders.
Following a clash in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, India and China have been involved in a nearly four-year discord at specific friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
Without much progress, the two sides have held numerous rounds of high-level military and diplomatic negotiations to end the deadlock. On the ground, "peace and tranquillity" are to be upheld by both parties.
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