Sikkim Standoff: “The Central Government’s Diplomatic Failure,” CM Mamta Banerjee Categorically said
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Sikkim Standoff: The Reactions of China and India including “The Central Government's Diplomatic Failure,” CM Mamata Banerjee categorically said as under:
1. Stop Other Business To Talk China: Mamata Banerjee's Party In Parliament: The way the relations have deteriorated with China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan...we are the worst sufferers. We have been sandwiched.
2. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party has submitted a notice which asks for all other business of the Upper House of the parliament to be suspended. Mamata Banerjee's party wants Rajya Sabha to prioritize the Sikkim border discussion in Rajya Sabha.
3. The West Bengal Chief Minister's party has submitted a notice which asks for all other business of the Upper House of the parliament to be suspended, pointing out that it is vulnerable geographically to the border dispute which lies at the "Chicken's Neck" - a thin wedge of land just 23 km at its widest that links mainland India to the seven northeastern states.
4. A Chinese military advance of less than 80 miles (130 km) would cut off Bhutan, part of West Bengal and all of North-East India, an area containing almost 50 million people. This situation arose during the war between India and China in 1962.
5. Of the nearly 3,500-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
6. China has said it has every right to build a road on its own territory and has warned of serious consequences" if India does not withdraw its troops.
7. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, July 17, 2017 blamed the Modi government’s “diplomatic failure” for the “deterioration” in ties with neighbours like China, Nepal and Bangladesh, and said her state “suffered” because of it.
8. “If China takes over Sikkim, which has similarities with Darjeeling, that will be because of the Centre’s failure. Relations with neighbouring countries like China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh have deteriorated because of the central government’s diplomatic failure,” she said amid the continued stand-off between the Indian and Chinese armies in the Sikkim section.
9. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party has submitted a notice which asks for all other business of the Upper House of the parliament to be suspended. Modi govt undermining Bengal’s interest by spoiling relations with neighbours: Mamata
10. West Bengal chief minister claims her state that shares borders with Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh is bearing the brunt of New Delhi’s “deteriorating relations” with all neighbouring countries. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed Bengal has become a “sandwich” in these conflicts.
11. Banerjee is the second chief minister to express concern over the ongoing faceoff with China. Earlier Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling had said his state did not merge with India to become a sandwich between China and Bengal.
12. Mamata Banerjee blames diplomatic failure for worsening relation with neighbours: "Relations with neighbouring countries like China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh have deteriorated because of the central government's diplomatic failure," she said amid the continued stand-off between the Indian and Chinese armies in the Sikkim section.
13. Emphasising that she has always been for sharing good relations with Bangladesh, Banerjee said she had spoken to the External Affairs Minister when an effigy of that country’s premier Sheikh Hasina was burnt by the VHP on July 1.2017.
14. Targeting central government agencies like the IB, SSB, RAW and NIA, the chief minister wondered what these were doing when around 400 schools teaching Chinese language sprang up at Pashupathi gate near Darjeeling.
15. “West Bengal will not be an easy task for the BJP. If BJP thinks that by killing people in the name of ‘goraksha’ or by firing guns or by initiating riots they can grab Bengal, they are mistaken. And if we protest, we will be threatened by the CBI, ED and I-T,” she said. “But I would like to tell them that we never bow our heads (before the Centre),” she said.
16. Narendra Modi-led central government is undermining the interest of her state by “spoiling relations” with neighbouring countries: “Bengal that has borders with Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh is bearing the brunt of deteriorating relations with all neighbouring countries. If today Sikkim goes under the control of China, Darjeeling will pay the price. What was the necessity of spoiling the relation with all bordering nations,” said the chief minister.
17. The tiny Himalayan state lost about Rs 60,000 crore in the past 30 years due to intermittent blockades in Bengal’s Darjeeling over demand for a separate Gorkhaland state, he claimed.
18. Banerjee also accused the Border Security Force (BSF), a central paramilitary force, of allowing the radical groups from Bangladesh to infiltrate into her state.
19. “I have a documentary evidence to prove that Jamaat (members of radical Jamaat-e-Islami) elements infiltrated into Bengal without any resistance through the border at Satkhira,” she said.
20. Satkhira is a Bangladesh district sharing border with West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. “What was BSF doing there? Which battalion of BSF was posted there? We have all the information,” she claimed, adding, “The Jamaat is also against Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh prime minister),” she added.
21. She claimed the state government was in possession of details of who allowed troublemakers to enter West Bengal from Satkhira.
22. Banerjee also flayed the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for burning the effigy of Hasina near the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata earlier this month.
23. Opposition Unity: “Raising her pitch for Opposition unity, the chief minister said, “We, 17 parties, have voted unitedly for Meera Kumar, to register our protest despite the imminent victory of the BJP-nominated candidate. This Opposition unity should continue.”
24. She said some non-NDA parties are backing BJP “out of fear.”
25. “But let me caution them that BJP would not spare them in future. So they should stop backing the party,” she added.
26. “An Op-ed article in the Global Times claimed that the Indian action to stop Chinese troops from building a road near the Doklam plateau was a ‘blatant infringement on China's sovereignty’.
27. Beijing, July 18, 2017: China needs to prepare for the standoff with India near the Sikkim sector becoming a long- term situation, an article in a state-run Chinese daily said on Monday, warning that more such conflicts can trigger "an all out confrontation" along the entire Line of Actual Control.
28. The Op-ed article in the Global Times claimed that the Indian action to stop Chinese troops from building a road near the Doklam plateau was a "blatant infringement on China's sovereignty".
29. The Chinese action has led to a month-long military standoff: The article said that if India "stirs up conflicts in several spots, it must face the consequence of an all-out confrontation with China along the entire LAC (Line of Actual Control)".
30. Of the 3,488-km-long border India shares with China from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.
31. The article in the tabloid daily, which is a part of the ruling Communist Party of China media group, said: "As the confrontation goes on, China needs to get ready for the face- off becoming a long-term situation and at the same time, needs to maintain a sense of rationality".
32. "China doesn't advocate and tries hard to avoid a military clash with India, but China doesn't fear going to war to safeguard sovereignty either, and will make itself ready for a long-term confrontation," it said.
33. Don't use Doklam standoff as policy tool to achieve political targets, China tells India: Chinese foreign ministry also asks India to immediately withdraw its troops to avoid any escalation of the situation. India should not use “trespass” into the Doklam area in the Sikkim sector as a “policy tool” to achieve its “political targets”, China said on Tuesday.
34. Earlier, an Op-ed in a Chinese state-run daily said that if India “stirs up conflicts in several spots, it must face the consequence of an all-out confrontation with China along the entire LAC (Line of Actual Control).”
35. “China doesn’t advocate and tries hard to avoid a military clash with India, but China doesn’t fear going to war to safeguard sovereignty either, and will make itself ready for a long-term confrontation,” said The Global Times.
36. China Claims Foreign Diplomats 'Shocked' By India Crossing Sikkim Border: Raising the rhetoric, a state-run paper in China today warned the country is battle-ready and India will face an "all-out confrontation" along the entire disputed border of nearly 3,500 kms.
37. Sources in India confirmed to NDTV that Beijing officials met with foreign envoys last week to brief them about the stand-off and told them that China's patience "is not indefinite". In similar briefings to envoys in Delhi, Indian officials have said that diplomatic channels are in use to help resolve the conflict.
38. China says it has every right to build a road on its territory in the region it calls Donglang. Bhutan says the area where the land is being built, which it calls Dokalam, is part of its kingdom; India agrees with that claim and says it had also forewarned China that the road was a security violation because of its proximity to the Chicken's Neck - a thin strip of land that links mainland India to its seven northeastern states.
39. "The illegal trespass by the Indian border personnel has drawn extensive attention from the international community and many foreign diplomatic missions in China said they were shocked by this,” said Lu Kang, a spokesperson for the Chinese government, today.
40. Whereas, India has expressed concern over the road construction, fearing it may allow Chinese troops to cut India's access to its northeastern states. It has conveyed to China that the road construction would represent a significant change of status quo with serious security implications for India.
The Extracts Courtesy By: THE HINDU, THE TRIBUNE, CHANDIGARH, THE TIMES OF INDIA, HT, and NDTV…Thanks
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