more-inThe Congress slammed the Modi government over the border standoff with China, saying it had been caught napping on the issue, adding that moving from a “reluctant” Defence Minister to a “part-time” one had not helped matters. “There is a serious eyeball- to-eyeball confrontation on the border with 120 Chinese incursions in the last 45 days — and in 2017, there have been 240 incursions,” Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, stressing, “Unfortunately, this government has been caught napping.”He described the BJP-led NDA’s defence ministers — Manohar Parrikar and Arun Jaitley — over the last three as “reuctant” and “part time” respectively. Underscoring the reluctance of the government to admit that there was a problem, Mr. Singhvi said that while the Minister of State for Defence had said that there were no Chinese incursions, only transgressions, Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said that talk of intrusions by the Chinese was only “perception”. “We stand solidly with the government when they stand firmly on security issues,” he said, while adding that his party is “alarmed and concerned.”

Source: The Hindu July 03, 2017 16:52 UTC