BJP national executive should speak on India-China border issues: Congress

Questioning the BJP's "Silence" on border issues with China, the Congress on Sunday dubbed the ruling party as "Pseudo nationalist" and asked if it would speak out the "Truth" about the "Threat on our borders" and China's growing influence in the neighbourhood. "Today we demand from the so-called national executive of this pseudo nationalists' party to come out and say something on China and share with the country the deadline on when will you be able to push China back from our territory and what are you doing to reduce Chinese influence in our neighbourhood," he told reporters. "''This is an occasion to ask the pseudo nationalist" whether they will open their mouth and say something on the growing threat from China across all our borders,'' he asked at a press conference, after the BJP's national executive meeting. In a series of tweets, the BJP leaders claimed that "Some mischievous media" wrote in bold that China has built a village inside Arunachal "And then slightly mentioned 'at the area occupied by China in 1959'. What's your purpose?". An undeveloped border is safer than a developed border, the then defence minister said, adding that China on the other had improved its infrastructure on the border. The Congress had on Saturday sought an apology from Prime Minister Modi and asked him to "Withdraw" his "Clean chit" to China as it cited a Pentagon report that claims China has entered 4.5 km into Arunachal Pradesh. "China is active against our interests and is building ties with the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka besides Pakistan and is active there, still the Government of India is silent, and is instead giving it a clean chit,"' the Congress leader alleged.