'Indo-China clash due to intelligence failure'
June 17, 2020  13:29
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Former Union Minister M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday blamed the NDA government at the Centre for 'intelligence failure' that led to fierce clashes between Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh which left 20 Indian soldiers dead. Expressing concern over the outbreak of violence between the soldiers of two nuclear armed neighbours, he said, "We have lost lives and that means it is a very serious situation. What I feel sad about is that the build up (of Chinese soldiers) would not have certainly happened overnight. It would have taken some time. I feel it is an intelligence failure that we did not anticipate the build up," the Minister of state for Defence told PTI. 

Wondering how the government failed to anticipate the situation at LAC, he said, "only after the Defence Minister (Rajnath Singh) made a statement that they (Chinese) came in large numbers did we know of the actual situation. So I don't know why we failed in anticipating it. We have an established border defuse mechanism in place." 


At least 20 Indian Army personnel, including a colonel were killed in a violent face-off with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night, the biggest military confrontation in over 5 decades that has escalated the already volatile border stand-off in the region. -- PTI
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