Picture : Twitter / ANI
Neither is anyone inside our territory nor is any of our post captured, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said and asserted that 20 brave soldiers who laid down their lives in the violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of Ladakh, “taught a lesson to those who dared to look towards our motherland”. He further stated, India wants peace and friendship, but upholding sovereignty is foremost.
“Neither is anyone inside our territory nor is any of our post captured. Twenty of our jawans were martyred, but those who dared Bharat Mata, they were taught a lesson,” the Prime Minister said without naming China.
He said the armed forces were capable of protecting the territorial integrity of the country.
“Whether it is deployment, action, counter-action…air, land or sea, whatever our armed forces have to do to protect our country they will do,” he said. He said India’s armed forces have the capability to move into multiple sectors at one go.
“Today, we possess the capability that no one can eye even one inch of our land. India’s armed forces have the capability to move into multiple sectors at one go. Till now, those who were never questioned or stopped, now our jawans stop them and warn them at multiple sectors,” he said.
The Prime Minister said that the government has given importance to infrastructure development to protect the borders.
“In the past few years to protect our borders we have given importance to infrastructure development. The requirements of our armed forces, be it fighter planes, advanced helicopters, missile defence systems, that too is being given importance,” he said.
The Prime Minister and leaders also paid tributes to soldiers who lost their lives in the violent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh.
