Army vice-chief designate Lt Gen MM Naravane on Tuesday said China must realise that the Indian Army is not what it was at the time of the Sino-Indian war in 1962.
Naravane, currently the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, said, “We are no longer the Army of 1962 and if China says, ‘don’t forget history’, we have to also tell them the same thing. I don’t see 1962 as a black mark on the Army at all. All Army units fought well, did their assigned tasks.”
Head of Eastern Army Command Lieutenant General MM Naravane: We are no longer the Army of 1962 & if China says, ‘don’t forget history’, we’ve to also tell them the same thing. I don’t see 1962 as a black mark on the Army at all.All Army units fought well, did their assigned tasks pic.twitter.com/8M07itT3Ma
— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2019
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Claiming that India has come a long way from 1962, he said it was China which was caught unprepared during the 2017 Doklam standoff.
“It was China which was caught unprepared in the Dokalam standoff. They thought they would get away by being a regional bully, but we stood up to the bully. It shows that we are capable of taking on any threat,” he said during an interaction in Kolkata.
Head of Eastern Army Command Lieutenant General MM Naravane: It was China which was caught unprepared in the Dokalam standoff. They thought they would get away by being a regional bully, but we stood up to the bully. It shows that we are capable of taking on any threat. pic.twitter.com/trdN3qfFhQ
— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2019
Replying to a question that transgressions at the LAC by China have increased, Naravane said, ‘If we say that he (China) is coming into the grey zone 100 times, then we have gone in the grey zone 200 times’