India-China Standoff : Military Briefs PM Narendra Modi And Rajnath Singh

The tensions are rising with China along the LAC- Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and chiefs of the three services.

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General Rawat met the three chiefs and met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and informed him about the ground situation in Ladakh, the deployment of armed forces and how the state has safeguarded the LAC.

It is learnt that the military brass have informed PM Narendra Modi about the rising situations in eastern Ladakh though officials said that the meeting was pre-scheduled and the reforms in the armed forces was on the list of agenda.

The meeting will be done after the three-day conference of Army commanders which starts in Delhi on Wednesday. The attendees of the meeting would be Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Y K Joshi whose command is responsible for eastern Ladakh.

He has known the areas since he was a XIV Corps Commander before taking over the Northern Army Commander.

This conference was apparently scheduled for the date April 13-18, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, it will be held in two parts, the first part will be done from March 27-29 and the second in June-end.

¡°The apex level leadership of Indian Army will brainstorm on current emerging security and administrative challenges and chart the future course for Indian Army,¡± the Army said in a statement.

For now, there has been no change in tension over the LAC in the eastern Ladakh with India.

Sources prevailed that the Army had increased its presence on the boundary with China in North Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Along with Ladakh.

In Ladakh, already India and China have held six rounds of talk sessions with military commanders on the ground but have failed to achieve a solution.

Some sources said that the Chinese who have crossed the LAC at three places, refused to move out of Indian territory or de-escalate the tensions.