{"id":335179,"date":"2022-01-06T00:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=335179"},"modified":"2022-01-06T04:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T10:04:35","slug":"congress-questions-pms-silence-over-reports-of-china-constructing-bridge-on-pangong-tso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-questions-pms-silence-over-reports-of-china-constructing-bridge-on-pangong-tso\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress questions PM\u2019s silence over reports of China constructing bridge on Pangong Tso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-335187\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Chinas-bridge-on-Pangong-Tso-730x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Chinas-bridge-on-Pangong-Tso-730x430.jpg 730w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Chinas-bridge-on-Pangong-Tso-730x430-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Chinas-bridge-on-Pangong-Tso-730x430-696x410.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Chinas-bridge-on-Pangong-Tso-730x430-713x420.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of China constructing a bridge on the Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPM\u2019s silence is deafening. Our land, our people, our borders deserve better,\u201d Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He cited a news report claiming that the Chinese have been constructing a bridge on Pangong Tso Lake for over two months which is extremely close to the LAC.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge will connect the north and south bank of the lake, the report claimed. The Congress party and Gandhi have been critical of the government\u2019s handling of the border situation with China in eastern Ladakh, that has also seen bloody clashes between the Indian and PLA troops last year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of China constructing a bridge on the Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC). \u201cPM\u2019s silence is deafening. Our land, our people, our borders deserve better,\u201d Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter. He cited a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":335187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,10258,7755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335179"}],"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=335179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335189,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335179\/revisions\/335189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/335187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}