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India does not believe in war but has every capability to face any challenge and protect its territory, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday, in a veiled message to China, three weeks after Indian Army thwarted a transgression bid by Chinese PLA in the Tawang sector.
The defence minister also dedicated 28 border infrastructure projects in Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and four other states and Union Territories, and asserted that India has every capability to counter challenges along the border.
“India is a country which never encourages war and always wants to maintain cordial relations with its neighbours…This is our philosophy inherited from Lord Rama and from the teachings of Lord Buddha. The country has every capability to face any kind of situation if provoked,” he said.
The defence minister unveiled the projects, built at a cost of Rs 724 crore, at a function held at the Siyom bridge on the Along-Yinkiong road in Arunachal Pradesh, in his first visit to the border state that came three-and-a-half weeks after an attempt of transgression by the Chinese troops in the Tawang sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The projects comprised 22 bridges including the Siyom bridge, three roads and three other projects. Eight of these projects are in Ladakh, five in Arunachal Pradesh, four in Jammu and Kashmir, three each in Sikkim, Punjab and Uttarakhand and two in Rajasthan, according to the defence ministry.
