Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the latter of ‘betraying’ India’s national interests by attending the SCO meeting in Uzbekistan. The PM had met Chinese premiere Xi Jinping earlier this year at the summit.
“Modi betrayed India’s national interest by going to SCO meet despite Xi Jinping distributing Chinese map at the event showing Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh as part of China…and with Chinese names in the “official” atlas! Final kick to India: Russia has adopted Chinese names in their map!” he tweeted.
In a follow up remark he also said that India should “be ready to wage war in all feasible dimensions” in connection with the ongoing border conflict.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of External Affairs had said that the situation in eastern Ladakh was yet to return to normalcy.
The remarks came mere days after Chinese envoy Sun Weidong claimed that the situation in eastern Ladakh is “overall stable” as the two sides have moved from the “emergency response” that followed the Galwan valley clashes in June 2020 to “normalised” management. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that “some steps are required” for the situation to be called wholly normal.