Lt Gen Anil Chauhan, GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, said during Vijay Diwas celebrations in Calcutta on Wednesday: “The People’s Liberation Army of China has carried out infrastructure development activities, including development of defenses, opposite two points in Arunachal Pradesh. We are taking reciprocal actions to meet emerging challenges.”
Lt Gen Chauhan was presiding over the Vijay Diwas celebrations at Fort William, commemorating the victory of Indian armed forces and Mukti Bahini over Pakistani forces in the 1971 war, that led to the birth of Bangladesh.
Wreaths were laid at Vijay Smarak by representatives of the three services — army, navy and air force — along with veterans from the tri-services and members of a Bangladeshi delegation.
This year, a 72-member delegation from Bangladesh, led by Md Ali Ashraf, the chairman of the Parliament Committee on Government Assurance in Bangladesh, attended the programme.
Lt Gen Chauhan was presiding over the Vijay Diwas celebrations at Fort William, commemorating the victory of Indian armed forces and Mukti Bahini over Pakistani forces in the 1971 war, that led to the birth of Bangladesh. Gautam Bose
Senior army officers overseeing developments along the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh said most of the infrastructure development by the People’s Liberation Army of China was related to roads and tracks, which have been built to carry out patrolling. The People’s Liberation Army of China, he said, wants to move into those areas that are inaccessible.
“They have tried developing some kind of model villages next to the border areas, where they are trying to settle down the nomadic Tibetan population,” Lt Gen Chauhan said. “This, though, is their internal matter.”
He added: “The deployment along the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh is different from the eyeball-to-eyeball kind of contact we have with the Pakistanis along the Line of Control.... The Indian army is fully prepared to meet any challenges.”