New Delhi: A meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on external affairs should be called at the earliest and briefed by the foreign secretary, defence secretary and other top officials on the violent faceoff with China in which 20 Indian soldiers died, several panel members from the opposition parties said on Sunday.
However, panel members from the ruling party termed the demand an act of politics and said it wouldn’t be feasible to call the meeting when the country is grappling with the coronavirus crisis.
The committee is chaired by former Union Minister and BJP MP PP Chaudhary. Twenty Indian Army personnel were killed in a brutal attack by Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on June 15.
This was the worst cross-border violence between the two armies in 45 years and it has frayed ties between India and China.
Following the incident, members from various opposition parties demanded that a meeting of the standing committee on external affairs be called to discuss the matter. RSP MP NK Premchandran, a member of the panel, said a meeting has to be called on the standoff between India and China. (PTI)
