MODI UNDER FIRE OVER ANNEXATION OF LAND BY CHINA

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has faced rare criticism from within his own party, being accused of standing aside while China seizes swaths of territory in border regions.

Anger has been mounting in the nation of 1.4 billion since it was revealed that Chinese troops annexed 60 square kilometres of land in Ladakh in early May.

At least 23 Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand fighting in the Galwan Valley, as they attempted to uproot the ad hoc Chinese settlement last week.

Now, Urgain Chodon, a councillor for the ruling

Bharatiya Janata Party in Ladakh, has told The Daily Telegraph that China has occupied far more land than previously disclosed, and that the government has turned a blind eye.

“There is a lot of land which has been annexed by China, not only this time in the Galwan Valley but all along the LAC (Line of Actual Control),” Chodon, who represents eight border villages, said. “I have been raising my voice, and even meeting with the local administration. They know about it, but neither the government nor the media have raised their voices about it.”