Rahul's 'uncomfortable truths' on Indo-China tiff rock House

The Lok Sabha was on Monday repeatedly adjourned amid a row over Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi repeatedly seeking to raise the alleged details of the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in 2020.

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The lower house of the Parliament saw a heated exchange between the Congress and the ruling BJP over former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane's “unpublished” book on the Doklam standoff between India and China in 2020.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh objected to the remarks and urged Speaker Om Birla to stop LoP Rahul from raising the issue even without any “authenticity.”

Chaos erupted in the house, but Rahul remained adamant on raising the Ladakh standoff issue for “national security” purposes.

Amid this, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju stood up and said: “... What do you gain by portraying the country in a poor light? We may have differences of opinion, but in the national interest, we should all stand together.”

“You (Rahul Gandhi) are repeatedly raising things that you do not know about. There is no clarification about the book or the magazine. You are trying to humiliate our Army by making such statements. If Rahul wants to talk about the borders, then tell us how much land did the Congress surrender to China in 1962?” Rijiju questioned.