Can govt confirm no Chinese soldier has entered India, asks Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Amid a border standoff with China, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asked the government to make it clear whether or not Chinese soldiers have entered India.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had on Tuesday said that a "sizeable number" of Chinese troops have moved into eastern Ladakh and India too has taken all necessary steps to deal with the situation.
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took to Twitter to ask, "Can GOI (Government of India) please confirm that no Chinese soldiers have entered India (sic)."
He also shared a report about India and China holding a top-level military meet on June 6 in a bid to resolve the troops standoff in eastern Ladakh.
Gandhi asked the government to come clean on the border standoff with China and tell the country what exactly is happening "as its silence is fuelling speculation and uncertainty".
"The government's silence about the border situation with China is fuelling massive speculation and uncertainty at a time of crisis," he said earlier.
The Congress has asked the government to come clean on the border standoff and take all political parties and the country into confidence over restoration of the status quo ante on the border with China.
Troops of India and China were engaged in a major standoff for over three weeks in Pangong Tso, Galwan Valley, Demchok and Daulat Beg Oldie in eastern Ladakh, in what is turning out to be the biggest confrontation between the two countries after the Doklam episode in 2017.
The government has been maintaining that talks at military and diplomatic levels are on to resolve the row.
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If workplace turns toxic, employees serve notice period before leaving: Bharadwaj replies to Chadha
New Delhi (PTI): AAP's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj hit back at Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Monday over his "toxic workplace" analogy, saying even when an employee decides to leave a company, he serves a notice period instead of conspiring to damage the organisation's image.
Bharadwaj's remarks came after Chadha, who along with six other Rajya Sabha MPs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), announced his decision to merge with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), defended his exit by comparing the Arivind Kejriwal-led party to a toxic workplace.
In a video statement, Chadha had said if the atmosphere at the workplace becomes toxic, employees are stopped from working, their hard work is suppressed and they are silenced, then the right decision is to leave that place.
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Responding to this, Bharadwaj said while people may leave companies, political parties are based on ideology and not merely workplace convenience.
"There is nothing to do with ideology in changing a company. But if someone agrees with the ideology of a political party, only then does he join it," he said in a video posted on X.
Bharadwaj added that even in a company, an employee who decides to leave follows professional ethics.
"If an employee leaves a company, he serves a three-month notice period so that whatever he has learnt from that company can be properly transitioned. They do not conspire to ruin the company's image," he said.
Bharadwaj alleged that instead of leaving the party respectfully, Chadha began planning to join the BJP and started acting in a way that harmed the AAP.
"When the ED's pressure increased, you planned to join the BJP and started conspiring with it," he alleged.
The AAP leader also claimed that many issues raised by Chadha in Parliament, including affordable food at airports, mobile-recharge concerns, paternity leave and gig workers' rights, were already aligned with the BJP's political agenda.
Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal announced on April 24 that they were joining the BJP, along with four other AAP MPs. The others who quit the AAP were Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Swati Maliwal and Vikramjit Sahney.
On Monday, the Rajya Sabha chairman approved the merger of the seven MPs with the BJP, raising the saffron party's numbers in the Upper House of Parliament to 113. The AAP is now down to three members in the Rajya Sabha.
