Ladakh face-off: Modi to hold all-party meet shortly; Mamata to attend, AAP claims not invited
New Delhi, June 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all-party meeting on the India-China border face-off on Friday. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in the Monday night brawl and 18 others have been injured.
News agency ANI reported that 20 parties will attend the virtual meeting in which home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president JP Nadda will also be present.
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Meanwhile, Banerjee, the TMC chief, had on Wednesday said the Centre's move to call the all-party meeting to discuss the situation was a right decision.
"Our
party
supremo
would
attend
the
meeting
via
video-conference.
As
she
had
earlier
mentioned,
we
stand
by
the
country
in
this
hour
of
crisis,"
a
senior
TMC
leader
said.
On
the
other
hand,
Aam
Aadmi
Party
(AAP)
leader
Sanjay
Singh,
claimed
that
they
have
not
been
invited
to
Friday's
meeting.
"A strange ego-ridden government is running at the Centre. The Aam Aadmi Party has a government in Delhi. It is the main Opposition party in Punjab. There are four MPs all over the country, but still the BJP does not want AAP's opinion on such an important matter. What will the prime minister say in the meeting, the whole country is waiting for it," Singh tweeted in Hindi.
Ladakh faceoff: 'India capable of giving befitting reply, sacrifice of jawans won't be in vain'
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi wrote to PM Modi stating, "it is disappointing that my party was not invited to today's "All Party Meeting" on China border issue which was to be chaired by you."
Wrote to @PMOIndia about the growing concerns regarding Chinese incursions into Indian territory. We’ve lost 20 brave personnel besides our territory to Chinese occupation.
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) June 19, 2020
Recovering this territory by any means necessary is the best way to avenge the killings of our men pic.twitter.com/8GlIMxZQ9l
Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in a clash with Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley on Monday night, the biggest military confrontation in over five decades that has significantly escalated the already volatile border standoff between the two neighbours.