{"id":181074,"date":"2022-01-05T01:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181074"},"modified":"2022-01-05T01:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:28:25","slug":"gandhi-questions-pms-silence-over-reports-of-china-constructing-bridge-on-pangong-tso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/gandhi-questions-pms-silence-over-reports-of-china-constructing-bridge-on-pangong-tso\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi questions PM&#8217;s silence over reports of China constructing bridge on Pangong Tso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 4 Jan:<\/strong> Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of China constructing a bridge on Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, near the line of actual control (LAC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;PM&#8217;s silence is deafening. Our land, our people, our borders deserve better,&#8221; Gandhi said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bridge will connect the north and south bank of the lake, the report claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress party and Gandhi have been critical of the government&#8217;s handling of the border situation with China in eastern Ladakh, that has also seen bloody clashes between the Indian and PLA troops last year. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 4 Jan: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of China constructing a bridge on Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, near the line of actual control (LAC). &#8220;PM&#8217;s silence is deafening. Our land, our people, our borders deserve better,&#8221; Gandhi said on Twitter. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}