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<\/div>\nShashi Tharoor said China moves according to their idea of the map when it senses vulnerability (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday accused the BJP-led Centre of failing to contain the Chinese aggression at the border. Launching an attack on the Narendra Modi-led dispensation, he said, “Unless we stop hoodwinking the people by saying that China has taken nothing and there is no change, the country is in danger of losing a significant amount of territory.”<\/p>\n
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said the Chinese aggression issue is not just a map but a much larger problem.<\/p>\n
“This cartographic aggression is a way for China to erase certain markers done and when they sense vulnerability, they move according to their idea of the map,” Mr Tharoor said.<\/p>\n
He said earlier there were about 65 points where both armies used to patrol along the frontier, and there were no incidents for 45 years.<\/p>\n
“Suddenly, on 26 of these points, the Chinese Army comes and establishes permanent positions, which means that our Army, which used to patrol, can no longer patrol,” the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n
He claimed Indian shepherds in Ladakh can no longer graze their sheep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Rahul Gandhi, who visited these herders recently, heard it from their own lips. Even a local BJP councilor said the same,” Mr Tharoor claimed.<\/p>\n
He said the government has been talking about showing ‘Lal Aankhen’<\/em> (Red Eyes) to the Chinese, but there are no red eyes, but only red flags of the neighbour.<\/p>\n He said that it is now of paramount importance that the Congress and the Opposition hold the government’s feet to the fire.<\/p>\n Mr Tharoor said the statement of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar that Beijing had even put out such maps in the past, claiming territories that were not theirs, and that it was “an old habit” of China was not true.\u00a0<\/p>\n (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n