Former chief of military workers normal MM Naravane, days after the Arunachal Pradesh clash, has hit out on the Chinese Army for utilizing golf equipment and barbed wires throughout the skirmish and warned that the Indian Army would relatively open hearth than resort to “wielding clubs”, information company ANI reported.

“We would still like to maintain that we are a 21st-century army. To start going back to clubs and barbed wires is going back to prehistoric times. It is a very regressive way of going. We would still like to maintain that in warfare also there are certain rules. It is not that you do whatever you want to do. We would still like to maintain a professional stance. Therefore, rather than resort to wielding clubs, we rather open fire,” Naravane mentioned in a ‘Podcast with Smita Prakash’.

Naravane requested if the Chinese Army (People’s Liberation Army) has gone all the way down to the extent of “prehistoric times” through the use of “clubs and barbed wires”.

“That is how an army fights by using the weapons at your disposal and not getting into fisticuffs. Are we hooligans or mafia? We are professional. Is that the level PLA has gone down to? Hooliganism and streetfighting?” he requested.

The former Indian Army chief’s remarks come days after the Chinese Army tried to vary the established order on the Line of Actual Control or LAC within the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh on December 9 by means of a face-off with the Indian troops, through which they have been pushed again by the Indian Army with out struggling any casualties.

“On one side they try to show their technological prowess, on the other side they are coming with barbed wire clubs. It is ridiculous,” Naravane mentioned.

Talking concerning the Galwan valley conflict in 2020 through which 20 Indian troopers misplaced their lives and several other Chinese troopers have been additionally killed, Naravane mentioned that the Indian Army countered them in the identical approach that was used in opposition to it.

“Although we did not fire, we also resorted in a similar vein. It was always a question of who will open fire first. Since we felt that we had the measure of the PLA troops over there, we also countered them in the same way that they were taking action against us which was basically by the use of non-lethal, that is not actually firing, although casualties did occur. They were carrying sticks and we were also carrying sticks,” he mentioned.

Asked what went by means of his thoughts when Colonel Santosh Babu and his males have been killed within the Galwan conflict in 2020, he mentioned the troopers who made the supreme sacrifice died within the line of responsibility.

(With inputs from ANI)