THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Asserting that India's territorial integrity will never be compromised under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president JP Nadda said the Army was fully equipped to take on any adversary.
"The borders of India are intact and will remain intact under the Prime Ministership of Narendra Modi. Nobody can cast an ill eye on Modi's India," Nadda said while inaugurating the Maha Virtual Rally in Kerala from New Delhi on Tuesday via videoconference.
"During the de-escalation process that was underway in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, a violent face-off took place with Chinese Army. Indian Army has given a befitting reply," Nadda said.
Nadda's remarks come in the wake of 20 Army men who were martyred in the worst face-off at the border with Chinese Army in the last 45 years along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan area.
On the Indian side, the casualties include Telangana native Colonel Bikkamalla Santosh Babu -- who was the Commanding Officer of an Infantry Unit -- Havildar Palani from Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu and Sepoy Kundan Kumar Ojha from Sahibganj in Jharkhand.
The incident occurred when a large number of Chinese troops encircled Indian soldiers and beat them with rods and bamboos with nails on them.
The BJP president also trained his guns at the Congress. He said the behaviour of Opposition party has been utmost irresponsible during the times of crisis.
"We always worked on the principle of nation first and party next but for Congress, party stands first and nation last," he said.
Nadda also said Sonia Gandhi who was the then Congress chief, had decided to skip an all-party meeting called by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during the Kargil war in 1999.