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| UPA misleading nation on Chinese incursions: BJP | | China illegally acquires 38000 Sq kms in Ladkah, 20,000 Sq Kms land in Arunachal Pradesh | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 17: Concerned over reported incursions and clandestine occupation of strategic posts in Ladakh by China, the fact finding committee of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today accused the UPA government of misleading the nation on "illegal occupation" of Indian Territory by Chinese forces.
The Committee has recommended setting up of a Parliamentary Group for detail study and overseeing the border issue, besides setting up of a statutory high powered Autonomous Border Management Group at the national level.
"The UPA as well as the state governments are misleading the nation on illegal occupation of Indian Territory by China. Since 1962, China has grabbed the Indian Territory inch by inch putting territorial threat to India. Our security forces including Army have been directed not to react and make any statement over the issue," Nirmal Singh, one of the members of BJP's fact-finding team set up by the party's national president Nitin Gadkari in January 29, 2010 to go into the reported incursions by Chinese People's Liberation Army on Indian soil told reporters here.
The BJP leader claimed that the Chinese incursions and encroachments into India's territory in Ladakh are on rise and charged that Central government has followed a "soft approach" on China. The five-member committee including Bhagat Singh Koshyari, MP and national vice president, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MP and national spokesperson, Rajan Sushant, MP Himachal Pradesh, Tapir Gao, former MP AP and Nirmal Singh, former BJP J&K president and member National Executive had visited Ladakh, Sikkim and Arunchal Pradesh to investigate the compile a dossier on the reported incursions by the Chinese Army.
Giving a power-point presentation, Nirmal Singh said, "the BJP team on this report worked in three different legs and visited eastern sector of Arunchal Pradesh, Sikkim, western sector of Ladakh, J&K and middle leg of Uttarkand and Himachal Pradesh sharing 4056 kms boundary with China".
"After 1962 war, China has illegally occupied 20000 Sq Kms in Arunchal Pradesh and 38000 Sq kms in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, excluding 5180 Sq Kms the areas ceded to China by Pakistan in 1963," said Dr Nirmal adding, "Chinese Army has devised a new strategy to grab the Indian Territory under which they advanced inch by inch towards Indian land."
He claimed, "It was found that the China was more interesting in western sector of Ladakh than other eastern of Arunchal Pradesh as it more interested to retain Aksai Chin as it provides safe way to sustain control over Tibet with the intent to the eastern and middle sector for this region." "Successive Governments post-1962 turned a deliberate blind eye to frequent incursions and clandestine occupation of strategic posts and locations in the Ladakh," he charged.
The BJP leader claimed that thousands of kilometers of metalled roads on the Chinese side marks a contrast to the abysmal infrastructure both in terms of road communication and other basic logistical facilities. "China have blacktopping all along its borders and it has now has 40,000 km road network in Tibet apart from rail links the 1,118 kms one from Lhasa to Gormo in Qinghai province enable China to mobilize large forces on borders with India," he said.
He however, regretted, "It is unfortunate that our Army have poor infrastructure, no roads, no proper surveillance equipments and working under political pressure."
He said, according to Army personnel, there is no change on the ground since 1962 as the Chinese Army's forward posts are at the same place where they are earlier.
"The nation needs to be taken into confidence by making public the recommendation of the China Study Group on border infrastructure development to devise strategy for safeguarding the integrity and sovereignty of the country," Nirmal Singh said.
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