{"id":323828,"date":"2020-06-09T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323828"},"modified":"2020-06-09T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T05:17:27","slug":"have-chinese-occupied-indian-territory-in-ladakh-rahul-gandhi-questions-rajnath-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/have-chinese-occupied-indian-territory-in-ladakh-rahul-gandhi-questions-rajnath-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Chinese occupied Indian territory in Ladakh?: Rahul Gandhi questions Rajnath Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311984 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-529x420.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked Defence Minister Rajnath Singh if Chinese troops have occupied Indian territory in Ladakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOnce RM is done commenting on the hand symbol, can he answer: Have the Chinese occupied Indian territory in Ladakh?\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul\u2019s comment came after Singh\u00a0took a swipe at the Congress leader, who had earlier raised questions over the issue of border dispute with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It all began when Rahul targeted Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his statement at a virtual rally that India&#8217;s defence policy has gained global acceptance and that the country\u00a0is next to the US, Israel in protecting its borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul reacted by using couplet by legendary Urdu-Persian poet Mirza Ghalib. &#8220;Everyone knows the reality of the borders but to keep the heart happy, &#8216;Shah-yad&#8217; it is a good idea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hours later, the Defence Minister hit back at Congress leader saying, \u201cwhen there is a pain in the hand, use medicine, but what should one do when the hand itself is a pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Haath me dard ho to dawa kije, haath hi jab dard ho to kya kije,\u201d Singh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked Defence Minister Rajnath Singh if Chinese troops have occupied Indian territory in Ladakh. \u201cOnce RM is done commenting on the hand symbol, can he answer: Have the Chinese occupied Indian territory in Ladakh?\u201d Rahul tweeted. Rahul\u2019s comment came after Singh\u00a0took a swipe at the Congress leader, who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579,2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323829,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323828\/revisions\/323829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}