Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday alleged that Pakistan and China were working to "create" border disputes with India "under a mission", multiple Indian media outlets reported.
Singh made these remarks during a virtual event arranged for the inauguration of 44 bridges inbuilt areas near India's borders with Pakistan and China, including occupied Kashmir, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Indian Punjab.
The bridges are meant to facilitate the movement of troops and transporting weapons, consistent with NDTV. Singh also launched the Nechiphu tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh.
"You are cognizant of things created along our northern and eastern borders," Singh said in his virtual address.
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"First Pakistan, and now also by China, as if a border dispute is being created under a mission. we've a border of about 7,000 kilometres with these countries, where the strain remains."
Singh insisted that India had been ready to deal with the challenges along its borders under the "visionary" leadership of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and "was bringing major and historical changes", NDTV said in its report.
"Our soldiers personnel are deployed in large numbers in areas where transport isn't available throughout the year," Singh said, while explaining the importance of the newly built bridges. "These roads aren't just for strategic needs, but they also reflect equal participation of all stakeholders within the development of the state ."
The inauguration of the bridges comes weeks after Modi opened a Himalayan tunnel that traverses India's northern Himachal Pradesh state and lies on one among two main routes for troops headed to frame areas in Ladakh. The tunnel would drastically reduce the time needed to rush troops to the country's remote Chinese border as tensions persist between the Asian neighbours.
India has been engaged during a fresh border conflict with China along their disputed border within the Ladakh region.
The latest deadlock began in May and in June escalated to the deadliest violence between the edges in decades — a clash between soldiers using clubs, stones and their fists. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured. China is believed to possess also suffered casualties but has not given any details.
Meanwhile, the Indian army has committed a minimum of 2,340 ceasefire violations along the road of Control thus far this year, leading to martyrdom of 18 people and high injuries to 187 others, consistent with data provided by the ministry .
Pakistan has lodged protests against Indian aggression several times but the violations continue.
India's tensions with both Pakistan and China took a replacement turn when India unilaterally declared Ladakh a federal territory and separated it from Kashmir in August 2019, ending the region's semi-autonomous status. Kashmir, which has been an internationally recognised territorial dispute for many years , is controlled partially by Pakistan and India but claimed fully by both.
India has also vowed to require back the Chinese-controlled Aksai Chin plateau, which New Delhi says is a component of Ladakh.
Both China and Pakistan were among the primary countries to strongly condemn India's annexation of the disputed region, raising it at international forums including the United Nations Security Council .
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