Sikkim standoff: Mulayam warns govt against joint attack from Pak, China

Aarohi Khanna
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

Samajwadi Party leader and former Defence Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said China, in collaboration with Pakistan, was readying to attackIndia. He asked the Centre to reverse its stand on recognising Tibet as an autonomous region of China, and support the region’s independence.

Yadav, and socialists of his ilk, including former Defence Minister George Fernandes, have maintained that China is India’s “enemy number one”, and it isn’t new for the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister to caution about Beijing. Yadav’s comments come in the wake of the ongoing military stand-off between India and China on the Dokalam area.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) on Wednesday reported from Beijing, quoting from a mouthpiece of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), that the PLA has moved tens of thousands of tonnes of military vehicles and hardware into the remote mountainous Tibetregion after the standoff with Indian troops in the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector.

The vast haul was transported to a region south of the Kunlun Mountains in northern Tibet by the Western Theatre Command — which oversees the restive regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, and handles border issues with India, reported the PLA Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese military. The move took place late last month…Read More

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