Wrapping up his week-long bike tour of Ladakh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying about China’s incursion into Indian territory in Ladakh and alleged the BJP was handing over the region’s land to the Adani Group.
“Ladakh is a strategic place. I went to different pockets of the region on a bike. At the Pangong Tso lake, one thing was clear, China has taken away thousands of kilometres of India’s land. Every local in Ladakh knows about it. The sad part is that the PM during the Opposition meet said not a single inch of land was taken. The PM was not telling us the truth,” Mr. Gandhi said during his public address in Kargil. During the day, he also paid tributes to the martyrs at the Kargil War Memorial.
The latest salvo from Mr. Gandhi comes after a series of attacks on PM Modi in the past two years over Chinese incursions into Ladakh. In 2022, he accused the Prime Minister of giving away 1,000 square kilometres of territory to China, “without a fight”.
