Modi govt compromising India’s territorial integrity: Congress

New Delhi, Feb 11 : After Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a statement in the Parliament on the face-off with China, the Congress on Thursday accused the Narendra Modi-led government of brazenly compromising ‘national security’ and India’s ‘territorial integrity’.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of even uttering the word ‘China’, much less ensuring that the Chinese are pushed back decisively from illegal occupation of India’s territory in Depsang Plains, Gogra-Hot Springs Sector, Pangong Lake area and Chumur in southern Ladakh.” Surjewala also alleged that Rajnath Singh was trying to mislead the people by not giving full assurance on Chinese withdrawal from Indian territories in the areas mentioned above.
He said the Modi government and the Defence Minister refused to give an unequivocal assurance for restoration of status quo ante along the Line of Actual Control.
Surjewala alleged that the Modi government has always maintained that there has to be ‘complete disengagement and withdrawal of troops by the Chinese from the entire Ladakh area’.
Why is the Modi government agreeing to a selective disengagement only in the Pangong Lake area and that too by presumably changing the LAC to India’s disadvantage, Surjewala asked.