India won’t spare anyone: Rajnath’s strong message to China

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ In a strong message to China, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that if harmed, India will not spare anyone, as he asserted that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a powerful country and is headed to be among the top three economies of the world.

Singh, in his address to the Indian-American community in San Francisco, also sent a subtle message to the United States that New Delhi does not believe in a diplomacy of ‘zero-sum game’ and its relationship with one country cannot be at the expense of the other. The defence minister was here to attend the India US 2+2 ministerial in Washington, DC.

Thereafter, he travelled to Hawaii for meetings at IndoPACOM headquarters and then to San Francisco. At a reception hosted in his honour by the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, the defence minister told the select gathering about the valour shown by Indian soldiers on the border with China.

“I cannot say openly what they (Indian soldiers) did and what decisions we (the government) took. But I can definitely say that a message has gone (to China) that India will not spare anyone, if India is harmed. (Bharat ko agar koi chherega to Bharat chhorega nahi),” he said.