The authorities should take care of China firmly and make it clear that “we are not going to tolerate them sitting on our land”, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned right here on the eve of the fruits of his Bharat Jodo Yatra on Sunday.

Gandhi mentioned that the strategy that the federal government was following “by completely denying” that the Chinese have “taken our land” is extraordinarily harmful as it could give them the arrogance to do even “more aggressive things”.

Addressing a press convention hours after unfurling the tricolour at Lal Chowk right here, the previous Congress president, who undertook the 134-day Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Srinagar, mentioned, “I think the way to deal with these Chinese is to deal with them firmly and to be very clear that they are sitting on our land and it is not something we are going to tolerate.”

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“The Prime Minister of India is the only person in the country who is under the impression that the Chinese have not taken any land from India. I recently met some ex-army people, even a delegation from Ladakh which clearly said that 2000 square kilometres of our Indian territory have been taken over by Chinese,” Gandhi mentioned.

They additionally mentioned that most of the patrolling factors that was in Indian territory at the moment are firmly in Chinese arms, he mentioned.

His remarks come a day after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned some individuals intentionally unfold flawed information in regards to the China problem, realizing it isn’t true, for politics and by speaking about some land, which was taken by China in 1962, they offer the impression this occurred just lately – feedback which might be seen as a dig at Gandhi.

“Sometimes, they talk about some land, which was taken by China in 1962. But they will not tell you the truth. They will give you the impression that this thing happened yesterday,” he had mentioned with out taking names.

Rahul Gandhi has been elevating the difficulty of Chinese aggression alongside the Line of Actual Control, alleging that Indian land has been occupied.