Congress seeks answers from government on Arunachal Pradesh map issue

NEW DELHI: Congress today raised the issue of China trying to reinforce its claim over Arunachal Pradesh by distributing "controversial updated maps" to its military.

In the Lok Sabha, senior Congress leader Mullappally Ramachandran demanded that the government should inform the House whether the matter was highlighted during the recent deliberations with Chinese leaders.

He urged the government to inform the House as to whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during interactions with Chinese leaders highlighted this issue.

Recently, Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping while Swaraj held discussions with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

"It is disquieting to note that our neighbour China is distributing millions of controversial updated maps to its military to reinforce its claim over Arunachal Pradesh.

"This incident cannot be seen in isolation as there are disturbing information from PoK about Chinese presence there and that China is building roads and other infrastructure there," Ramachandran said during Zero Hour.

"We have reports that our intelligence agencies have corroborated this information," he added.