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INDIATALKS

ChinA Border rAJAsthAn AssemBly

SituAtiOn under COntrOl, GehlOt GOvt iS tAppinG

SAyS ArMy Chief phOneS, AlleGeS Oppn

he “situation along our (India and China) have will be
borders with China is un- set to rest,” the general added.
Tder control”, Army Chief Tensions between India and eputy Leader of Op- ple sitting in the government
General MM Naravane said Sat- China escalated in early May position in Rajasthan have any evidence, they should
urday morning, adding that a se- after reports of skirmishes in Dassembly Rajendra Ra- disclose it,” Mr Rathore said.
ries of meetings between senior eastern Ladakh’s Pangong Lake thore alleged that the state gov- Rajasthan Chief Minis-
military commanders from both region. There were also reports ernment is tapping the phone ter Ashok Gehlot on Friday
sides had resulted in “a lot of dis- of Chinese soldiers patrolling calls of opposition members un- had said a complaint has been
engagement” and that “all per- the lake on motorboats and in- der the garb of a probe into the lodged with the SOG for probe
ceived differences that we (India cursion by Chinese choppers. alleged poaching of MLAs. The into cash transfers for poach-
and China) have will be set to Satellite images last month also Congress in Rajasthan has com- ing MLAs. He had said a huge
rest”. “I would like to assure ev- appeared to show the presence plained about “attempts to de- amount of cash has been trans-
eryone that the entire situation of four Chinese Air Force fighter stabilise the government” and ferred to Jaipur and attempts
along our borders with China is jets at an airport located around alleged that its MLAs and in- were being made to poach the
under control. We’re having a 200 km from Pangong Lake. dependent lawmakers support- Congress MLAs ahead of the
series of talks which started with India, which said the Chinese ing its government are being Rajya Sabha elections.
Corps Commander level and has military was hindering normal offered inducements to switch The poll for Upper House
been followed up with meetings patrolling by its troops along the sides to the BJP. for three seats in the state is due
at local levels between com- Line of Actual Control (LAC) in “By ordering an investiga- on June 19.
manders of equivalent ranks,” Ladakh and Sikkim, requested tion by the Anti-Corruption Bu- Rathore said the Congress
General Naravane said. high-level talks between senior reau (ACB) and special opera- government in the state is bat-
“As a result, a lot of disen- military commanders to defuse tions group (SOG), the (Ashok) tling with internal conflict right
gagement has taken place and the situation. The first round was Gehlot government is tapping after it came into power in the
we are hopeful that through the held on June 6 at the Border Per- phone calls of the opposition state. He said its high command
continued dialogue we’re having, sonnel Meeting Point in Maldo members. I think there is no had to struggle a lot to make a
all perceived differences that we on the Chinese side of the LAC. need to be worried. If the peo- chief minister.

Adhir Chowdhury

MOdi livinG in virtuAl wOrld, SAyS COnGreSS leAder

eader of the Congress across the country. Chowdhury tally crossed the three-lakh alarming spike of Corona in-
in the Lok Sabha, Adhir also asked Prime Minister Nar- mark with over 10,000 new virus fection in the country, heading
LRanjan Chowdhury, on endra Modi to come down from cases. “Like imposition of lock towards catching the 1st rank in
Friday blamed the Centre’s the “virtual to actual India” to down, exiting strategy was also the world. @narendramodi Ji
“abrupt and unprofessional” have a feel of the crisis. taken in an abrupt and unpro- should come down from virtu-
lockdown exit strategy for the His comments came on a fessional manner, fraught with al to actual India,” Chowdhury
spike in coronavirus numbers day the country’s COVID-19 danger. Thus resulting into the tweeted.

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