Modi Government has surrendered India’s strategic interests to China and woefully compromised National Security. It has been widely reported now in the media that China has refused to pull back its troops from Hot Springs, Gogra and the Indian Territory at Depsang plains, during the last round of Corps Commander-level talks held on April 09, 2021. Defence Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh on the floor of the Parliament on February 13, 2021, had stated that “remaining friction points, including the strategic Depsang Plains, would be taken up for discussion in the next round of military talks, within 24 hours.”

Based on the statement made by the Defence Ministry dated February 12, the Congress party had asked several key questions to the Modi Government, strongly underlining the ‘Operation Cover-up’ by the BJP and its weak-kneed leadership that India doesn’t deserve.Media reports now reveal that at Patrolling Point 15 and Patrolling Point-17A in Hot Springs and Gogra Post, the Chinese PLA is ‘much inside the Indian territory’.

Why has the Modi Government relinquished India’s National Interests and let down our Armed Forces? Will the Modi Government come clean and tell the truth to the people of India? If Defence Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh had categorically mentioned in Parliament that India has not ceded any territory to China, why has the issue regarding Hot Springs, Gogra Posts and Depsang Plains not been resolved in the last military level talks?

Is it not a fact that Modi Government’s decision to withdraw our troops from PP-14 in Galwan Valley and subsequent creation of buffer territory in that area has landed India in a disadvantageous position to the benefit of China in Hot Springs, Gogra Posts and Depsang Plains?

Paragraph 8of Defence Ministry’s statement dated February 1 had described Gogra Posts & Hot Springs’ as ‘Outstanding Problems’, while in reality ‘Gogra & Hot Springs’ is India’s territory. Do the fresh revelations now not cement the charge that Modi Government has virtually given up our claims on these strategic points?

Chinese have occupied our territory 18 kilometers inside the LAC upto Y-Junction (bottleneck). This has also jeopardized one of the most important and strategically placed Air Strips i.e. DBO Air Strip (DBO-Daulat Beg Oldi).Why has the Modi Government given up India’s claims on the Depsang Plains, in the recently concluded talks?

In February, Modi Government had agreed to withdraw Indian Armed Forces from dominant positions in ‘Kailash Ranges’ (Southern Bank, Pangong Tso Lake Area), where the Chinese are at a disadvantage, without any quid pro quo by China.Why has Modi Government committed this unpardonable compromise with our National Security vis-a-vis our dominant positions in Kailash Ranges?

Is it also not true that now China is recruiting Tibetans in the PLA? Why did the Modi Govt. shelve the ‘Mountain Strike Corps’ implemented by the Congress-UPA Govt. along the China border with 90,274 additional soldiers at a cost of Rs. 64,678 Crores?

PM Modi has in the past claimed that ‘no one entered our territory’ and had given a clean chit to China; even though 20 Indian soldiers were martyred in the Galwan valley. Has this not emboldened China to arm-twist India and lowered the morale of our Armed Forces?

While at the moment India is engaged in an internal battle of worst kind in fighting COVID-19 due to BJP Government’s apathy& ill preparedness, the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi hasleft the country vulnerable on yet another front by severely surrendering our interests on international borders. Sunday, April 18, 2021