Both Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi focused their social media posts on the anguish surrounding the death of Tsewang Tharchin, an ex-serviceman from Ladakh.
Kharge shared a video of Tharchin’s father on X, stating, “Ladakh’s sorrow is the sorrow of the entire nation.” He added, “Shaheed Tsewang Tarchin fulfilled his duty towards Mother India in the Kargil War. What did he get in return? A bullet from the Modi government in Ladakh! The father was also in the army, the son was also in the army.”
Kharge further criticized the government, saying, “When our 20 brave soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country at the LAC in Ladakh in Galwan, Modi Ji himself gave China a CLEAN CHIT! If he didn’t remember the valor of our brave soldiers then, what chance is there now? Those who can give China a CLEAN CHIT, what respect will they show for the martyrdom of brave soldiers like our Tsewang Tharchin!” He called this the BJP’s “hollow nationalism.”
Rahul Gandhi, who is currently on a four-nation tour of South America, also posted the same video of Tharchin’s father. He said, “Father in the army, son in the army — patriotism runs in their blood. Yet the BJP government shot and killed this brave son of the nation, simply because he stood up for Ladakh and his rights.”
Gandhi quoted the father’s pain-filled eyes, which seem to ask one question: is this the reward for serving the nation today? He demanded an impartial judicial inquiry into the killings in Ladakh and called for the culprits to be punished severely. “(Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji, you have betrayed the people of Ladakh. They are demanding their rights. Communicate with them; stop the politics of violence and fear,” the former Congress president said.
The Congress party on Monday condemned the killing of ex-serviceman Tsewang Tharchin in firing by security forces in Ladakh as outrageous. In a post on X, Congress general secretary and communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh highlighted that Tharchin had served at the Siachen Glacier and fought valiantly in the 1999 Kargil War. He also acknowledged that Tharchin’s father had served in the Indian Army.
“Tsewang Tharchin was protesting peacefully for Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh. It should be a matter of the deepest anguish and outrage that he was killed along with three others in the firing on the agitators five days ago,” Ramesh said.
On Wednesday, September 24, four people were killed in police firing and scores were injured when a protest demanding statehood for Ladakh turned violent. Protesters set fire to a local BJP office and allegedly pelted police and CRPF personnel with stones.
On September 26, climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was detained under the National Security Act and subsequently lodged in Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan.
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