A year after the August 2017 disengagement between the Indian and Chinese armies after a 72-day stand-off, the shadow of Doklam lingers. “Amazing how a lady like Sushmaji has buckled and prostrated herself in front of Chinese power,” Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted on August 2. “Absolute subservience to the leader means our brave jawan has been betrayed on the border.”
Rahul, it appears, has seized upon Doklam as one of the key issues with which to puncture the Modi government’s narrative on its foreign policy successes, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He has made more than a dozen statements on Doklam in the past year, and described Prime Minister Modi’s April 28 summit in Wuhan as a “no agenda” meeting.
That Rahul has been able to pursue this line of attack is, to some extent, a problem of the government’s own making. Since the disengagement, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) has insisted there have been “no new developments at the face-off site and its vicinity” and that “status quo prevails”. This is technically correct. The turning point near Doka La, where China was extending a road towards the India-China-Bhutan trijunction point, is free of Chinese presence.
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