New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for an all-party meeting on Friday over India-China border issue following the violent face-off with the Chinese troops on 15th June night in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
On 17th June, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in a tweet said that the meeting will be held at 5 p.m. on June 19 in which issues related to the face-off between the Indian forces and Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers at patrolling point number 14 in eastern Ladakh will be discussed.
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In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister @narendramodi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 PM on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 17, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister @narendramodi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 PM on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 17, 2020In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister @narendramodi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 PM on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 17, 2020
The presidents of various parties will take part in the meeting. "In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 p.m. on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting," the PMO tweeted.
As many as 20 Indian Army jawans were killed in violent clashes with China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Ladakh on June 15.
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Party chiefs who are expected to attend the all-party meet today:
1. Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi
2. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief MK Stalin
3. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu
4. Ändhra Pradesh CM, representing YSCRCP, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
5. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar
6. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
7. CPI leader D Raja
8. CP(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury
9. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
10. Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao
11. West Bengal CM and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee
12. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Badal
13. Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan
14. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray
15. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav
16. Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren representing Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)
17. BJD leader Pinaki Mishra
- Why is an all-party meeting different this time?
Prime Minister Modi has called this meeting at a time when leaders of all major opposition parties, including Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, have asked the government to clear the confusion on the heightened tension at the border with China. Prime Minister Modi in the all-party meet is likely to answer all the questions raised by the opposition.
This time Prime Minister Narendra Modi will himself chair the all-party meeting called in the face of the confrontation with China. This is the first time since the India-China War of 1962 when such a large number of soldiers were killed at the Line of Actual Control. Earlier in 1975, 4 soldiers were killed in firing at the border.
In such an important matter of national security, the government wants to take the opposition into confidence and resolve their doubts on all issues pertaining to the stand-off. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself is leading the charge and holding meetings after the killing of Indian soldiers in Galwan Valley.
This is going to be the third all-party meeting in the last four years on the challenges posed to the nation's security at the borders. The last one was on February 16, 2019, when the Union Government convened an all-party meeting, two days after the terrorist attack in Pulwama on February 14, 2019.
Before this, an all-party meeting was also held on September 29, 2016, a day after the surgical strike in response to the terrorist attack on the army camp in Uri, Kashmir.
(With Inputs from IANS)
