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AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday lashed out at the Centre over recent Arunachal border face-off, accusing the Modi government of “rewarding” China with high volumes of imports instead of “punishing” it for incursions into India.
Addressing the party’s national council and national executive meetings here, the Delhi Chief Minister also said that winning five seats in recently concluded Gujarat assembly polls was as difficult as “milking an ox”.
He claimed that while Chinese aggression is increasing at the border, the BJP-led Centre says “everything is alright”.
Instead of “retaliating and punishing” China, the Modi government is “rewarding Beijing by allowing an increase in imports of Chinese goods even though many Indian soldiers put their lives while fighting Chinese troops, he charged.
Kejriwal said that India imported Chinese goods worth USD 65 billion in 2020-21.
“Then China again showed a much bigger eye (to India) and the BJP government let the import of Chinese goods further increase to USD 95 billion next year,” he claimed.
“Don’t you have any respect for our soldiers? Is there no value of their lives?… Show some courage. China will come to know its worth if India stops imports,” he added.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief also appealed to the nation to boycott Chinese products. “They say Chinese products are cheap. We do not want Chinese products even if they are cheap. We are ready to buy made-in-India products even if it costs us double.”
The BJP hit back and labelled the AAP as a sham party, accusing Kejriwal of playing politics of opportunism in the garb of nationalism.
When Kejriwal, who talks big about nationalism, keeps silent on Pakistan’s indecent remarks towards India at the international stage in his party’s national convention, then it becomes clear how hollow his nationalism is, Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said.
Kejriwal termed the recent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh as a very important issue and said it is causing much pain to every person in the country for the last few days.
