'Rahul Gandhi's claims were true': Kharge, Sanjay Raut on China's new 'standard map' including Arunachal, Aksai Chin
Aksai Chin occupied by it in the 1962 war as part of its territory. The map also incorporates China's claims over the nine-dash line thus laying claim to a large part of the South China Sea. The map was released by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources during the celebration of Surveying and Mapping Publicity Day and the National Mapping Awareness Publicity Week on Monday in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, as per China Daily newspaper.
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Several political leaders expressed concern. The Congress on Tuesday said these are inalienable parts of India which no such illegal representation or arbitrarily invented map by the "habitual offender" can change.
The party also urged the government to use the upcoming G20 Summit to expose China's transgressions into Indian territory at the global stage. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said Indian territories including Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin are indistinguishable and inalienable part of India and "no arbitrarily invented Chinese map can change that". In a post on X, he said, "China is a habitual offender when it comes to renaming and redrawing maps of territories, belonging to other countries.
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