New Delhi: As China gets more and more aggressive on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian army has been instructed to reciprocate with the same intensity Tuesday.
More troops have been deployed by India in Chumar and the army has been asked to maintain forward deployment at the forward area (LAC)
All the battalions of Ladakh are already put on high alert as Chinese helicopters made several surveillances in the area.
Some army men of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China went back and some were replaced this morning.
China is getting increasingly combative hence Indian troops are holding forth with equal force. Around 1000 Chinese soldiers are battling against an equal number of Indian troops at Chumar in eastern Ladakh for the past couple of days. Due to this Army Chief General Dalbir Singh had to cancel his visit to Bhutan Monday.
The government has now decided to send in more troops as the standoff persists.
In a tough reaction to Chinese Army repeatedly making incursion into the Chumar sector of Ladakh, the Indian government has called off an India-China Media Exchange which was scheduled to take place later this week in Delhi.
Government has abruptly withdrawn clearances for Chinese journalists who were coming to Delhi this week for exchange of thoughts with Indian scribes. An India-China media dialogue is an annual practice.
“Due to unavoidable complications, we have had to postpone the India-China Media Exchange. But for now, it stands cancelled,” the organisers told participating Indian journalists.
Despite the reported assurance by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who concluded his three-day visit to India on Friday, the stand-off in Chumar area of Ladakh continued.
Chumar, the last village in Ladakh area bordering Himachal Pradesh, has been a bone of contention with China claiming it to be its own territory and has been frequenting the area with helicopter incursions almost every year.
