Home Minister Amit Shah has rekindled the debate over the disputed border between India and China, taking aim at former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for allegedly saying “bye-bye” to the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh during the Chinese aggression of 1962.
In a speech at an election rally in Assam’s Lakhimpur, Shah said that while Nehru had said “bye-bye” to the states, the BJP government would ensure that “China could not encroach even a single inch of our land.”
“But now, China could not encroach even a single inch of our land. Even in Doklam, we pushed them back,” he added.
He said that the BJP government secured the country’s borders and stopped infiltration from Bangladesh, while the previous Congress government in Assam had “inflicted injustice” on the state and scores of people were killed due to different violent movements and insurgency-related incidents.
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“Under the Modi government in the last 10 years, peace accords were signed and 9,000 youths surrendered,” he said, adding that the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been withdrawn from 80 per cent of areas of the state.
He said that the Assam Accord was signed, but the clauses were never fulfilled. However, two years after the BJP government signed the Bodo Accord, all the clauses were fulfilled, he added.
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