Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, went head-to-head with the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, saying that she has betrayed the Indian soldiers at the border.
He tweeted that Swaraj has buckled under the Chinese, referring to the Doklam stand-off.
Amazing how a lady like Sushma ji has buckled and prostrated herself in front of Chinese power. Absolute subservience to the leader means our brave jawan has been betrayed on the border. #Doklamhttps://t.co/UALkmH0jZ1
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 2, 2018
This comes a day after the external affairs minister addressed the Lok Sabha on the Doklam issue.
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On Wednesday Swaraj informed the Lok Sabha “we have resolved the Doklam issue with diplomatic maturity without losing any ground. There is no change in the status quo. There is not an iota of change. The face off at the site has been resolved on August 28, 2017.”
With the Prime Minister present in the House, Swaraj said the Wuhan informal summit was held without any agenda and the three main objectives of ensuring “mutual comfort, mutual understanding and mutual trust” between the two leaders had been achieved.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had repeatedly called Modi’s Wuhan two-day trip from on April 27 as “no agenda visit” and accused the Prime Minister of not raising the Doklam issue with the Chinese president.
She informed the Lok Sabha that as a follow up to the Wuhan summit, the Chinese defence minister is coming to enhance military cooperation, while the foreign minister will arrive later this year as part of efforts to enhance people-to-people contact.
Swaraj said the Wuhan summit was an innovative format for leadership-level diplomatic engagement as it enabled the two leaders to hold direct, free and candid exchange of views on issues of overarching, long-term and strategic significance, without the constrains of protocol and a preset agenda.
Jinping has accepted the Prime Minister’s invitation to visit India for the second informal summit at a mutually convenient time in 2019, Swaraj said.
Replying to a question regarding the South-China sea dispute, she said, “Our stand on South China sea is clear. There should be freedom of navigation and all international laws should be adhered to,” she said.