{"id":28523,"date":"2020-06-25T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28523"},"modified":"2020-06-25T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:46:46","slug":"contrary-to-modis-statement-ladakh-status-quo-changed-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28523","title":{"rendered":"Contrary to Modi&#8217;s statement, Ladakh status quo changed: Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday once again slammed the BJP-led Central government over the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) issue, saying contrary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s statement it is &#8220;undeniable&#8221; that the status quo in Ladakh&#8217;s Galwan valley has been changed by China in April this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said, &#8220;Foreign Ministry and PLA (People&#8217;s Liberation Army) of China once again assert their claim to the entire Galwan Valley and demand that India should vacate the valley. Extraordinary demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Will BJP-led NDA government once again reassert India&#8217;s claim and demand that status quo ante must be restored?&#8221; he questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Contrary to what the Prime Minister said, it is undeniable that the status quo was changed by Chinese troops in April-June 2020. People are watching if the Modi government will succeed in restoring the status quo ante,&#8221; the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Chidambaram was referring to Modi&#8217;s statement made on Friday during the all party meeting that &#8220;China did not occupy the Indian land&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extraordinary demand!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Foreign Ministry and PLA of China once again assert their claim to the entire Galwan Valley and demand that India should vacate the Valley. Extraordinary demand!<\/p>&mdash; P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PChidambaram_IN\/status\/1276008945417547779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/heavy-chinese-deployment-at-friction-points-in-ladakh\/liveblog\/76615085.cms\">The Economic Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday once again slammed the BJP-led Central government over the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) issue, saying contrary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s statement it is &#8220;undeniable&#8221; that the status quo in Ladakh&#8217;s Galwan valley has been changed by China in April this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}