New Delhi: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said border areas had been neglected in the past but were now a "top priority" of the Narendra Modi government, as he sought to counter claims of fresh Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh.
Rijiju also invoked former defence minister A K Antony's 2013 statement in Parliament, saying the Congress leader has then acknowledged India's historical policy of keeping border areas underdeveloped and that allowed China to steal a march over India in building infrastructure and capabilities along the frontier.
