Congress demands all-party meet on Sino-India border situation
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday demanded that the government convene an all-party meeting on the Sino-India border situation and take the entire opposition into confidence.
Congress leader and senior spokesperson Manish Tewari told a press conference that it has been three years since the standoff with China began at the Line of Actual Control in May 2020 but the government has maintained silence on the issue and has not allowed any discussion on it in Parliament.
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“We demand as a responsible opposition that an all-party meeting of all leaders and discuss the China situation. Three years after the standoff, the government should have taken the entire opposition in confidence and tell them on the developments of the last three years and the ongoing negotiations and give them a summary,” he told reporters.
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— Congress (@INCIndia) April 5, 2023
He said the government “should take the opposition into confidence and convene a meeting of senior leaders of the opposition and comprehensively brief them about the talks with China on bringing peace at the border”.
PM मोदी 2013 से लेकर अब तक 19 बार शी जिनपिंग से मिले और 5 बार PM मोदी चीन गए हैं।
इस सबके बावजूद 2014 में चुमुर, 2017 में डोकलाम, 2020 में गलवान की घटना और 2022 में तवांग में झड़प हुई।
ये सारी घटनाएं भारत-चीन संबंधों का नया मील का पत्थर हैं।
: @ManishTewari जी pic.twitter.com/xmLFGaRy2H
— Congress (@INCIndia) April 5, 2023
Tewari also asked how and why an instrusion or transgression at multiple points take place at the LAC and why this question remain germane is because an entire infrastructure was created since 1993 to avoid conflict at the border and maintain peace there.
चीन से भारत का व्यापार बड़ी तेजी से बढ़ा है। 2022 में हमने चीन से 136 बिलियन डॉलर का व्यापार किया।
इसमें हम केवल 17.5 बिलियन डॉलर का निर्यात कर पाए और हमारा व्यापार घाटा 100 बिलियन डॉलर से ज्यादा का हो गया।
क्या हम चीनी घुसपैठ को सब्सिडाइज कर रहे हैं?
: @ManishTewari जी pic.twitter.com/JsSqWnWUus
— Congress (@INCIndia) April 5, 2023
The Congress leader said he himself has asked 65 questions in Parliament on the conflict at the border since September 2020 when the Parliament met for the first time after the first conflict, but the same have not even been accepted.
जून 2020 में जब गलवान की घटना हुई तो PM मोदी ने कहा कि भारत की जमीन में किसी भी तरह की कोई घुसपैठ नहीं हुई है।
जबकि बॉर्डर मैनेजमेंट को लेकर एक शीर्ष पुलिस कॉन्फ्रेंस में यह बताया गया कि हम 65 पैट्रोलिंग पॉइंट्स में 26 पर नियंत्रण खो चुके हैं।
: @ManishTewari जी pic.twitter.com/eGaYPFrFhB
— Congress (@INCIndia) April 5, 2023
“The government is not ready to answer any question on China and is not giving any answers. There is an opacity about what is happening at the border,” he said.
To a question on China renaming several places in Arunachal Pradesh, he said it was very irresponsible on the part of the Ministry of External Affairs to say that such things keep happening in the past.
आज हमारी मांग है कि मोदी सरकार एक सर्वदलीय बैठक बुलाए।
सरकार बैठक में हमें बीते 3 सालों में चीन से जुड़े घटनाक्रम का ब्यौरा दे।
साथ ही चीन से जो भी बातचीत जारी है, उसका पूरा सार विपक्ष के शीर्ष नेतृत्व के सामने रखे।
: @ManishTewari जी pic.twitter.com/ILZB8NwjxT
— Congress (@INCIndia) April 5, 2023
He said the last time China did something like this, the then UPA government lodged a strong protest and “we expected the government to issue a sharp statement as the action raises questions on India’s integrity and should have been condemned”.
Tewari also alleged that the total trade between India and China has increased from 2000 to 2022 to USD 136 billion of which imports comprise of USD 119 billion and exports to China are only USD 17.5 billion.
Source: Press Trust of India
