Hope PM will finally agree to debate on China during Parliament’s Monsoon session: Congress

Congress urges PM Modi to address China's national security and economic challenges in Parliament session.

The Congress on Thursday (June 19, 2025) said it has been calling for a detailed debate on China for the last five years and hopes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will finally agree to such a discussion in the forthcoming Monsoon session of Parliament.

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The Opposition party also said it is important to collectively work towards a national consensus on vital national security and economic challenges posed by China’s emergence as the world’s dominant manufacturing power and as the world’s second-largest economy.

Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh said, “Today is the fifth anniversary of PM Modi’s infamous clean chit to China when he said, ‘Na koi hamari seema mein ghus aaya hai, na hi koi ghusa hua hai,’ only four days after 20 of our brave soldiers gave their lives for the nation in Galwan on 15 June, 2020.”

“This sorry episode concluded with a withdrawal agreement on October 21, 2024, under which Indian patrols require Chinese concurrence to reach their patrolling points in Depsang, Demchok, and Chumar,” he said in a post on X.

“Buffer zones” in Galwan, Hot Spring, and Pangong Tso lie predominantly within the Indian claim line and seemingly permanently prevent our troops from accessing points to which they had unrestricted access before April 2020, Mr. Ramesh claimed.

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