All-party meet on Ladakh faceoff

It refers to the all-party meeting called by Prime Minister on June 19, 2020 wherein the Congress president is said to have asked Prime Minister to share all details on Indian soldiers being killed by the Chinese army. Earlier the former Congress president had doubted that Indian army was unarmed during the incident for which Indian Foreign Minister reminded of the Indo-China agreement signed in UPA regime whereby fire-arms could not be used on armies of two countries being face-to-face with each other. It is childish even to imagine that army on borders can be without arms. Even RTI Act legislated during UPA regime under Section 8(1)(a) of RTI Act does not allow making information relating to security and strategic aspects public.

It was surprising that the CPI (M) representative in the meeting echoed stand like that of 1962-war with China by suggesting to follow principles of Panchsheel, with a country who killed persons of Indian army with non-traditional weapons. CPI representative responded according to party-ideology that India needs to resist US efforts to drag India into their alliance. It was time that instead of echoing their ideological stands, both these parties would have reacted only on China making informal attack on Indian army-persons like was done by rest other opposition parties joining the meeting. At least on defence matters, all Opposition parties should solidly back Prime Minister like is done in Israel where bitterness between political parties is even more than that in India thus making the small nation becoming the most strategic and strong nation of the world.

Madhu Agrawal,

Dariba, Chandni Chowk,

DELHI 110006