Updated: June 24, 2020 1:18:17 pm
Amarinder said the amount of build-up in the valley showed that the Chinese were working on a plan.(File)
Terming the stand-off in Galwan valley as part of a larger design on the part of China, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Tuesday said India should not make the mistake of dismissing the violence as a patrol clash but should take a firm stand against any incursion into Indian territory.
Twenty Indian soldiers, including four from the state, were killed in a violent clash with Chinese troops in the valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15.
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Amarinder said the amount of build-up in the valley showed that the Chinese were working on a plan.
“India cannot afford to lose even an inch of its land in the area, which is of huge strategic importance for both sides. We have all seen clashes in our time, with Pakistan and even with the Chinese, and this is definitely not a patrol clash,” the CM, a former army captain, said.
Referring to the map of the area, he said that the Chinese had reached half way through to the Siachen Glacier after Pakistan ceded the northern part of the Shaksgam Valley in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 1963. Beyond that there is an…
