Attempts are Being Made to Misinterpret PM Modi’s Remarks: PMO

Soon after staked claim over the Galwan Valley for the second time, the Congress has on Saturday asked the Union Government to clarify its stand and urged for a quick response to China.

Former Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram, said that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's remark that no outsider was inside Indian Territory in Ladakh, had practically left everyone – Confused and Confounded.

However, the Union Government, in a statement, later clarified that the Galwan clashes arose because the Chinese were trying to erect structures just across the LAC and did not desist from such actions. Earlier this day, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said that the development along the LAC is a small snapshot of what we are required to handle at short notice and our forces are “suitable deployed to respond to any contingency.

In the worst flare-up on the LAC in more than five decades, 20 Indian Army personnel, including the Commanding Officer of 16 Bihar, were killed Monday night in the Galwan area where disengagement of troops on either side was underway. It was the first time in the last 45 years that Indian or Chinese troops have been killed on the LAC. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in a statement issued by the PMO remarked at all-party meeting saying, “Attempts are being made in some quarters to give a mischievous interpretation to remarks made by the PM at the All-Party Meeting (APM) on Friday. The Prime Minister's observations that there was no Chinese presence on our side of the LAC pertained to the situation as a consequence of the bravery of our armed forced. The sacrifices of the 16 Bihar Regiment foiled the attempt of the Chinese side to erect structures and also cleared the attempted transgression at this point of the LAC on that day”.