Govt cancels Kailash Mansarovar yatra through Nathu La amid military standoff
India | Jun 30, 2017, 08:09 PM ISTThe Kailash Mansarovar yatra through Nathu La has been cancelled, an official said today.
The Kailash Mansarovar yatra through Nathu La has been cancelled, an official said today.
India said on Friday that it has told China that the building of a road by Chinese troops in a border region will have "serious security implications."
Rawat was apprised about the tense situation on the border at the Army's 17 Mountain Division even as China warned that the Indian Army should learn "historical lessons", in an oblique reference to the 1962 war.
The deployment of the tanks expands the Tibet-based unit and has increased their fighting power.
Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) personnel breached the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Sikkim sector and destroyed two makeshift Indian Army bunkers earlier this month in Lalten area of Doka La sector.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will visit Sikkim tomorrow in the backdrop of a standoff between Indian troops and Chinese army along the Sino-India border in Sikkim.
China has removed an old bunker of the Indian Army located at the tri-junction of India, China and Bhutan in Sikkim by using a bulldozer.
China has justified the construction of a road in the Sikkim sector, saying the area "undoubtedly" is located on its side of the border as per the 1890 Sino-British Treaty
Holding India responsible for the border stand-off in Sikkim, the Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday said that it would not allow pilgrims from India to visit Mansarovar, in Tibet, until the situation is resolved
“China urges India to immediately withdraw its border guards that have crossed the boundary and have a thorough investigation of this matter,” Geng said.
Two bunkers of the Indian Army were also destroyed in Lalten area of Doka La, PTI reported today.
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