Rahul Gandhi’s remark about Army chief and China was ‘irresponsible’, says Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the remark by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi relating to the Indian Army chief and China was a “false allegation” and was irresponsible.

Singh said that the comment about the situation at the Line of Actual Control between India and China that Gandhi had attributed to the Army chief had not been made by him.

Gandhi had said on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had denied that the Chinese military was inside Indian territory “but for some reason, our Army keeps talking to Chinese about their entry into our territory and the Chief of Army Staff has said that the Chinese are inside our territory.”

The comment by the Congress leader during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the president’s address was in an apparent reference to the military stand-off between Indian and Chinese forces at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.

“The Army chief’s remarks referred only to the disturbance of traditional patrolling by both sides,” Singh said on social media. “He also mentioned that these practices have been restored to their traditional pattern as part of the recent disengagement.”

The Union government has shared these details in Parliament, the defence minister added.

Singh added: “The words attributed...

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