Our External Affairs Minister (EAM) Jaishankar has joined issue with Rahul Gandhi and raised in Parliament that the latter should not have used the word 'pithai' in the context of the clash between the Chinese soldiers and Indian jawans in the Tawang region recently. If there was a clash as reported with canes and sticks there would be 'pithai' on both sides. Therefore the BJP should say what is the actual reality and deal with it. The EAM also said in Parliament that the Army has scaled up its strength at the LAC in recent times but even then we get regular border incursions by China. Does this mean China does not even bother about our Army build-up? Our jawans are being used as cannon fodder from incidents ranging from Pulwama to the Galwan valley and now Tawang. This has to stop and India has to place action before words so that the enemy is more wary about us. Concluding we need a White Paper on the China aggression on our borders all along the LAC so that the country knows the true reality.
