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Anurag Thakur slammed Rahul Gandhi for alleging China occupied 4,000 km of the Indian land, blaming the UPA regime for territorial losses.
Anurag Thakur (L)/Rahul Gandhi (R) (Photos: PTI)
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday attacked Rahul Gandhi after the latter raised the issue of India-China ties in the Lok Sabha.
Slamming Gandhi’s remarks, Thakur said China took control of the Indian land during the UPA’s regime and schooled him that politicising such issues would not yield anything.
The Union Minister’s response came after Rahul Gandhi, in the lower House today, claimed that China took 4,000 km of the Indian land.
He also asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu wrote a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“There should be status quo, and we should get our land back. It has also come to my knowledge that the Prime Minister and President have written to the Chinese. We are finding this out not from our people but from the Chinese ambassador,” Gandhi claimed.
Also speaking on the tariffs imposed by the United States on India, Rahul Gandhi said, “On the other side, our ally has decided to levy tariffs on us. This will completely devastate us. What is the government of India doing about our land and what will you do on the issue of tariffs.”
In response, Thakur asked, “During whose time did China take control of the area? Who were the people who were sipping soup with Chinese officials during the Doklam standoff?”
“Doing politics on an issue like this will not yield anything, but they (Congress) have to answer to the people of the country about the mistakes of the past,” Anurag Thakur said.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha in the wee hours of Thursday.
The Bill was being tabled in the Rajya Sabha today.