INDIA APTLY DEALT WITH ATTEMPTS TO TRANSGRESS LAC: MEA IN LOK SABHA

All attempts by the Chinese side to transgress the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the western sector since midmay 2020 met with an “appropriate response” from Indian troops, the government said in Parliament on Wednesday.

In a written reply to a question from BJP lawmaker Sangam Lal Gupta in Lok Sabha, minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan said there had been an “enhanced deployment of troops and armaments by the Chinese side” in border areas and along the LAC in the western sector since April-may last year. “Since mid-may the Chinese side attempted to transgress the LAC in several areas of the Western Sector of the Indiachina border area. These attempts were invariably met with an appropriate response from us.”

To address issues arising from attempts to transgress the LAC, India and China have engaged in discussions through established military and diplomatic channels, he said. Defence minister Rajnath Singh met Chinese counterpart Gen Wei Fenghe in Moscow on September 4, 2020, and said the two sides should “resolve the ongoing situation and outstanding issues in the border areas peacefully through dialogue”.