New Delhi: MP Congress Rahul Gandhi and several parliamentarians walked out of the defense committee meeting after they were not permitted to discuss border problems with China, said sources.
The meeting is scheduled for 3pm today, they said. Demand by Mr. Gandhi and Congress Parliament members to discuss the border line with China was rejected, after which he walked out of the defense committee meeting, followed by his party parliamentarians.
In the parliamentary strategy meeting chaired by the Chairman of Congress Sonia Gandhi, Congress has decided to raise the border problems with China in the upcoming Monsoon parliamentary session.
Opposition leader at Rajya Sabha Malikarjun Kharge has been asked to coordinate with allies about floor management and strategies in parliament, said source. Congress wants to increase the problem of increasing fuel prices, inflation, lack of vaccines, unemployment and Rafale controversy, regardless of border problems with China, during the Monsun session.
Mr. Gandhi has long criticized the government accusing India to have a “Ceded” area to China. Indian and Chinese soldiers have clashed in the East Ladakh Galwan Valley in June last year.
After the nine-month deadlock, the Indian and Chinese military in February this year reached an agreement on the release on the north and South Bank of Lake Pangong which mandated both parties to stop the spread of the forces of “gradual, coordinated and verified” way.
India has not yet “conceded” any area to China by tightening an agreement on the process of releasing in Pangong Tso in Tabakh Timur, the government has said in February.
