Congress leader Rahul Gandhi created a stir on Friday morning when he held a press conference in which he alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi "ceded" Indian territory to the Chinese.
Rahul's press conference came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh shared details in Parliament about an agreement with China to disengage from the standoff at the Pangong Tso lake.
Referring to specific deployments, Rahul claimed, "Finger 4 is our territory; that is where our post used to be. Now, we have moved from Finger 4 to Finger 3. Why has Prime Minister Modi given up Indian territory to the Chinese? This is the question that needs to be answered by him and the defence minister." Rahul also accused Modi of being a coward for not confronting China. Rahul said Modi was "spitting on the sacrifice" of the Indian Army. Rahul also tweeted, "Traitors ripped up Bharat Mata and gave a piece to China!"
The BJP was quick to hit back. Not surprisingly, they chose Rahul Gandhi's great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, as the means to do it. Nehru, India's first prime minister, was at the helm of affairs at the time of the 1962 war with China.
BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi tweeted a news article from The Indian Express from July 1962. She tweeted, "Lessons in history, for gaddars (traitors) by gaddars! Resurgent India’s collective power can upset many gaddars Jai Hind."
G. Kishan Reddy, minister of state for home, also referred to Nehru. Reddy was quoted by ANI as saying, "He must ask his grandfather (sic) about who has given India's territory to China; he will get the answer... Who is a patriot and who is not, the public knows it all."
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Manoj Kotak, the BJP MP representing Mumbai North East, tweeted about Nehru's purported response to the Chinese invasion of Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh in 1962.
Kotak tweeted, "China took over the entire western Arunachal Pradesh,which was a part of Assam in 1962.They had reached Assam in the foothills of AP. The then PM Nehru 'In those barren land and mountains of Ladakh and Arunachal,not even a blade of grass grows, why Parliament is wasting time'."
Kokak also repeated an old allegation raised by the BJP that Rahul had met Chinese officials during the standoff between the two countries over Doklam in 2017. Kotak tweeted, "The heir continuing the family tradition by meeting Chinese during standoff of Doklam has no right to question the valour of our forces. Rahul Gandhi should take history lessons from his family first before sermoning
@narendramodi ji or shamefully undermining the soldiers."
