NEW DELHI, April 6 � China has devised a zero-conflict strategy using nomads and grazers to invade pasture lands and grazing grounds in Indian territory inching quietly and providing discreet protection to their nomads successfully unleashing a virtual creepy invasion, alleged a BJP fact-finding team.
The high-powered committee entrusted by BJP national president, Nitin Gadkari to draft a white paper on Chinese incursions has in the first phase visited Arunachal Pradesh followed by Leh, and is scheduled to visit Sikkim and Utttarkhand shortly. The team comprises former Chief Minister of Uttarkhand, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Rajan Sushant and Tapir Gao amongst others.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, Rajya Sabha member, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, said they travelled extensively to the border outposts and locations facing China and alleged that successive governments post-1962 and as recent as 1996 turned a deliberate blind eye to frequent incursions and clandestine occupation of strategic posts and locations in the mountainous Ladakh region.
In 1962, India lost huge tracts of land, when the Chinese invaded recklessly occupying major land mass and the bitterness of Nehru's failed Indo-China diplomacy looms large over the nation. The irreparable loss both in terms of dignity and geographical area remains a black spot post Independence. The reminiscences of Nehruian policy are amply visible today, which again eventually may end up costing the nation heavily, said the BJP MP.
�We fear that the present policies of UPA on China are no different,� said Rudy.
The team further observed that the privacy policy imposed by the Indian Government, preventing Indians and other tourist to access the frontiers bordering China without permit, which stretches into thousands of miles and lakhs of square kilometres of snowy dessert has kept the region deprived of public interaction. This has impeded the awareness of Indian, on the ground realities on Chinese front.
The delegation said BJP fails to understand why the Indian Government has to be shy and timid about the whole affair. The UPA Government is failing miserably not only on physical intrusion but also on psychological invasion by China. The BJP strongly opposes and condemns the clandestine and manipulative designs and steps of Chinese Army intruding into Indian territory, Rudy said.
The BJP outburst comes at a time when External Affairs Minister, S M Krishna is touring China.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman reacting to Krishna�s visit said India and China are important neighbours to each other and both are major emerging developing countries. �Good-neighbourly friendship, mutually beneficial cooperation and common development not only benefit both countries and peoples, but are of great significance to joint efforts on global issues and challenges, as well as international peace, stability and development.
�We attach great importance to strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation with India,� he said.
The two countries have set up comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation for peace and prosperity and reached the "ten strategies" to further intensify mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields and published A Shared Vision for the 21st Century of China and India, said the spokesman.
As for the border issue, the two countries have reached political parameters and guiding principles. All of the above are the remarkable and important achievements in bilateral relationship over these years.
�We are ready to promote strategic mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation with India and to strengthen our communication and coordination in international affairs in order to push forward China-India relations,� the spokesman said.
