'Baseless, Absurd': BJP Slams Rahul Gandhi After He Alleges PM 'Lying About Chinese Incursion' In Ladakh

In a press conference, Sudhanshu Trivedi said that sending rice to the Chinese Army while India's ties with China were tense was not a mistake, but a "historic and unpardonable" crime.

Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi.

The BJP dismissed Rahul Gandhi's claim that China has encroached on Indian territory as "baseless and absurd," claiming that the opposition party has done "historic, unpardonable crime" in ties with Beijing, news agency PTI reported. Sudhanshu Trivedi, a BJP spokesperson, quoted from chosen writings of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, claiming that his administration delivered over 3,500 tonnes of food to the Chinese Army, which was "starving" at the time. He also requested that the Congress make public their alleged deal with the Chinese Communist Party while the UPA was in office.

In a press conference, he said that sending rice to the Chinese Army while India's ties with China were tense was not a mistake, but a "historic and unpardonable" crime.

Gandhi has a history of making unfounded and ludicrous assertions about China, he added, adding that the former Congress president does the same about India, its people, and the RSS.

He had met the Chinese envoy during the Doklam conflict, according to Trivedi.

The BJP leader said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government had achieved unparalleled success in handling India's military, diplomatic, and economic affairs.

When in opposition, the Congress has always sought to undermine the country, he said, and he urged the party to learn from the BJP, which backed the then-governments amid crises involving neighbours like as Pakistan or China.

While the Congress government failed to punish Pakistan for its backing for terrorism because it believed it would jeopardise peace negotiations, Modi's position is that terror and diplomacy cannot coexist. There is a sense of calm and security, he remarked, whereas terror attacks were commonplace during the UPA.

Raising the border issue, Gandhi stated at a public forum in Kargil on Friday that everyone in Ladakh knows China has "taken away our land," and that Prime Minister Modi's claim that not an inch of land has been taken away is "absolutely false."

Trivedi also made fun of the opposition's condemnation of a national award for 'The Kashmir Files,' a commercial smash that dramatised the flight of Kashmiri Pandits but was chastised for its representation of Muslims.

A jury chose it, and people who support free expression should respect the decision, he added.

He claimed that the opposition associates Muslims with criminality and terrorism and despises a "good and truthful Muslim." Such a stance, he claims, is harmful to both India and Muslims.

In response to Gandhi's criticism of the RSS, a BJP spokeswoman stated that Nehru lauded the Hindutva organization's assistance for the government during the 1962 conflict with China and invited it to the Republic Day parade in 1963. Trivedi believes Rahul Gandhi should determine if he is correct or Nehru was correct.