Ahead of the fourth round of the talks, the Ladakh administration announced the establishment of a recruitment board, which was one of the key demands of agitating groups.
After Saturday s meeting with the High-Power Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the agitating groups of Ladakh are hopeful that their concerns will be addressed by the Centre.
Raking up the border issue, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said every individual in Ladakh knows that China has "taken away our land" and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi s assertion that not an inch of land was taken away was "absolutely false". The former Congress president s remarks come after Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a conversation on Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit in Johannesburg. The conversation was not a structured bilateral meeting and was an informal one.
The former Congress president s remarks come after Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a conversation on Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit in Johannesburg. The conversation was not a structured bilateral meeting and was an informal one.
India's Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Thursday said Modi conveyed to Xi India's concerns on the 'unresolved' issues along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, underlining that maintenance of peace and tranquillity in border areas was essential for normalisation of India-China ties