Katchatheevu made poll issue without considering India-Sri Lanka ties- Ex-Indian minister

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
of Lok Sabha polls without thinking of its implications on the India-Sri Lanka relations.The decades-old territorial and fishing rights
dispute around the Katchatheevu island is in the limelight again with the BJP and the opposition parties engaged in a war of words.Sinha,
I am aware of the fact that Katchatheevu was an island which when the maritime, international maritime line was drawn fell on the side of
issue now, I can only say that it will spoil the relationship with Sri Lanka
located between Rameswaram in India and Sri Lanka
an election, you raise many issues
But you have to be conscious of the implications of the issues that you raise
Here, the prime minister has raised the issue without at all looking at the implications it is going to have on our bilateral relationship
government
China claims, I am concerned with the fact that according to a reply given by the Defence Minister, 38,000 square km of our land has been
taken over by China
India says not an inch of our territory has been taken by China
He is absolutely wrong
And he is misleading the people of India because his own colleague, the defence minister, has said that China has occupied 38,000 square km
said China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 sq km of Indian territory in the Union Territory of Ladakh for the
370, I would say that Article 370 was already dead and gone
It was just a hollow shell
There was nothing left in Article 370
I made the National Statistical Commission (NSC) an independent body, but it is not so anymore
I am sorry to say that the Statistical Commission has also been brought within the ambit of the government, and it has lost its independence
talking about all the progress that has been made
Did you know that in the 10 years of the UPA government and the 10 years of the Modi government, the amount of loan that the government of
1984 to join politics, was with the BJP till 2018, when he quit alleging that the NDA government at the Centre was undermining democratic
institutions.The former Hazaribagh MP joined the Trinamool Congress in 2021.Source: PTI-Agencies