TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has asserted that no force in the world can stop Indian soldiers from patrolling the country’s border in Ladakh region. Making a statement in Rajya Sabha on the situation in eastern Ladakh, he said China has amassed troops on the border and in response India has made appropriate counter deployment.
China, he said, made “provocative military manoeuvres” on August 29/30 in an attempt to change the status quo in the south bank area of Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region at a time when the two sides were engaged in military and diplomatic talks to de-escalate tensions.
The defence minister said there is a mismatch between what China says and does. “Unki kathani aur karni alag hai (their actions are at variance with their words),” he said. The skirmishes and face-off in the last few months with China, that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese sides as well, were primarily over the issue of patrolling the Ladakh border.
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