Indian Army has lost 20 soldiers including a Colonel in a “violent face-off” with Chinese troops at the Galwan valley in Ladakh on Monday night. This was the most serious escalation at the border in the last 45 years that India lost lives on the LAC border. According to information available more than 43 Chinese soldiers have been killed or seriously injured. This is the first major fatal clash since 1975 between India and China who had fought a border war in 1962.
China has blamed India for the situation but India denied the charge. India said that the clashes happened “as a result of an attempt by the Chinese side to unilaterally change the status quo there”. In the meantime Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh has urged the Centre to give a befitting reply to China for making efforts to cross the border. The main opposition party Congress has demanded an all party meet to apprise the political parties of the ground situation.
After the 1962 war a similar incident had happened in 1975 in Arunachal Pradesh in which Indian soldiers had lost their lives due to attack from China.
