New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that China has taken away India’s territory in Ladakh and questioned the prime minister’s silence, as the opposition party stepped up its attack on the issue demanding that the government fix accountability.
The party also hit back at Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for his remarks against Rahul Gandhi, saying instead of addressing the concerns of the country voiced by the Congress leader Prasad has made a “very unfair and completely irresponsible” political attack. It accused the government of taking an “ostrich-like” approach to the issue and demanded that it tell the country what steps it intends to take to push back the Chinese army. “The Chinese have walked in and taken our territory in Ladakh. Meanwhile. The PM is absolutely silent and has vanished from the scene,” Gandhi said on Twitter.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the prime minister should tell the country what he is doing to remove the Chinese from the Indian territory and who was responsible for it.
“Unfortunately, rather than coming clean with the country and honestly address concerns, the Law Minister launched an extremely ill considered, irresponsible and intemperate attack on former Congress chief, when he reiterated these concerns,” Tewari said. Prasad had criticised Gandhi for raising questions on the sensitive issue related to national security on Twitter at a time when the country needs to speak in one voice.
“We want to tell them that patriotism and nationalism is not the exclusive monopoly of the NDA-BJP and much less the law minister,” Tewari said. “Asking hard questions to the government is not unpatriotic, not replying to them is unpatriotic,” he said.
“We would officially like to ask the NDA-BJP Government as the principle opposition party of the country, is it a fact that the Chinese have illegally occupied 40-60 square kilometers of our territory? “How did the Chinese soldiers enter India? Will the government decide its accountability? The country wants to know this,” Tewari said at an online press conference.
According to Tewari, it is unfortunate that rather than answering questions, the government was using “abrasive language” against the opposition party. (PTI)
