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New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Expressing concern over “increasing instances of border incursion” by China near Ladakh and other areas, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed a five-member committee of MPs and senior party leaders to visit Ladakh and report on the “Chinese threat” along the Line of Actual Control.
The committee has been appointed by BJP president Nitin Gadkari.

“The BJP president has appointed a five-member committee consisting of MPs and senior leaders to visit the border areas around Ladakh and report about the threat perception arising out of increasing incursion by Chinese forces into India,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said Friday.

Prasad also took exception to the declaration on the official Chinese government website that “it is our right to establish military bases overseas to conduct retaliatory attack within the country or, at the neighbouring areas of our potential enemies”.

“It is now well established that Chinese assertiveness has acquired a new belligerence. Obviously, all this has serious implications for India. China is very rapidly expanding its geo-political interest in our immediate neighbourhood, be it Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and even Maldives,” Prasad said.

“The very aggressive posture on Arunachal Pradesh is a part of this design as also the increasing instances of border incursion in and around Ladakh and other border areas,” Prasad added.

The BJP has asked the government to recognise its concern emanating from China’s aggressiveness and take adequate measures, including execution of infrastructure projects along the India-China border areas within a definite time period.

The team has MP and former Uttarakhand chief minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari, MP and BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MP Rajan Sushant, former MP Tapir Gaon, and former president of BJP’s Jammu-Kashmir unit Nirmal Singh.