PM Modi lashed out at the Congress for spreading "lies" about the Doklam standoff
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of
spreading lies about the Doklam standoff that he said had been revolved due to India's patience in face of a 'powerful' China.
"The entire world saw in Doklam the bravery of Indian soldiers, India's diplomatic prowess, India's etiquette, India's restraint and India's patience," PM Modi said at a meeting of BJP workers in Karnataka capital Bengaluru.
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No matter how powerful China was, India's patience prevailed," he told them. But the Congress is spreading false news on Doklam about India's strength that has been appreciated across the world, PM Modi told BJP workers in the state that is gearing up for assembly elections next year.
PM Modi rarely speaks about the Doklam standoff from a public platform. One exception was earlier this month when he was referring to people who were looking at the economy from a negative perspective. Such people had again tried to spread pessimism "when the Doklam issue surfaced", he had said in his address at the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
Indian soldiers had stopped the Chinese army from constructing a new road on the remote Doklam Plateau in mid-June, saying it would give China access to a strategically crucial narrow strip of land or "Chicken's Neck" that links it to its northeastern states.
China had retaliated, insisting that it has every right to build roads on its territory but later the two
countries agreed to "disengage" their troops in August end.In recent weeks, the Congress, particularly its vice president Rahul Gandhi, has been throwing darts at the government for its handling of the standoff, the longest between the military of the two countries in decades.
Mr Gandhi, whose meeting with the Chinese Ambassador during the crisis had erupted into a controversy, had later asked PM Modi
to explain reports that Beijing had withdrawn its bulldozers from the standoff site but located them to another part of the same road.