Modi govt ‘rewarding’ China instead of ‘punishing’ it, says Kejriwal

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday lashed out at the Centre over recent Arunachal border face-off, accusing the Modi government of “rewarding” China with high volumes of imports instead of “punishing” it for incursions into India.

Addressing the party’s national council and national executive meetings here, the Delhi Chief Minister also said that winning five seats in recently concluded Gujarat assembly polls was as difficult as “milking an ox”. He claimed that while Chinese aggression is increasing at the border, the BJP-led Centre says “everything is alright”.

Instead of “retaliating and punishing” China, the Modi government is “rewarding Beijing by allowing an increase in imports of Chinese goods even though many Indian soldiers put their lives while fighting Chinese troops, he charged. Kejriwal said that India imported Chinese goods worth USD 65 billion in 2020-21.

“Then China again showed a much bigger eye (to India) and the BJP government let the import of Chinese goods further increase to USD 95 billion next year,” he claimed. “Don’t you have any respect for our soldiers? Is there no value of their lives?… Show some courage. China will come to know its worth if India stops imports,” he added.