Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi   | Photo Credit:
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She poses questions at all-party meet

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Opposition was willing to make any sacrifice to ensure that Indian troops were “battle-ready”.

In her remarks at an all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), she asked the government to assure the nation that status quo ante would be restored and the Chinese would return to their original position.

Ms. Gandhi posed a series of questions, including the one on the possibility of an “intelligence failure”, and asserted that 20 Indian soldiers had to die because of a delay in taking up the issue of intrusion at the highest political and diplomatic level of the Chinese leadership.

“On which date did the Chinese troops intrude into our territory in Ladakh? When did the government f