{"id":30024,"date":"2020-07-19T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30024"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:39:34","slug":"india-will-pay-huge-price-for-govts-cowardice-in-ladakh-says-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30024","title":{"rendered":"India will pay huge price for govt\u2019s cowardice in Ladakh, says Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Rahul Gandhi\u2019s latest attack came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said progress has been made in talks with China for a solution to the border standoff in Ladakh but he cannot guarantee to what extent it would be resolved.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fired another salvo at the Centre on Saturday over its handling of the face-off with China in Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet, he said India will pay a huge price because of the government\u2019s \u201ccowardly actions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChina has taken our land and GOI is behaving like Chamberlain. This will further embolden China. India is going to pay a huge price because of GOI\u2019s cowardly actions,\u201d he said in his tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The former Congress president tagged Defence Minister Rajnath Singh\u2019s speech in Lukung near the Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh on Friday during which he said progress has been made in talks with China for a solution to the border standoff but he cannot guarantee to what extent it would be resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh went on to say that no power in the world could grab even an inch of Indian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>On July 3, in a thinly-veiled reference to China\u2019s attempt to intrude into Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the \u201cage of expansionism is over\u201d and applauded the troops posted in the Galwan Valley for showing \u201cfire and fury\u201d to the enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahul Gandhi has been targeting the government ever since the clash of June 15 that left 20 Indian soldiers and an unspecified number of Chinese troopers dead in Galwan valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi and the Congress party have also asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi several times to specify where the clash had occurred and if the Chinese did not intrude into Indian territory then where did the Indian soldiers die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress has also accused the government of being economical with the truth about the ground situation in Ladakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/india-will-pay-huge-price-for-govt-s-cowardice-in-ladakh-says-rahul-gandhi\/story-rPzVXWazRwciYIbbnBOSTM.html\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi\u2019s latest attack came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said progress has been made in talks with China for a solution to the border standoff in Ladakh but he cannot guarantee to what extent it would be resolved. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fired another salvo at the Centre on Saturday over its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024","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=30024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024\/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=30024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}