The government has reiterated a bridge being constructed by China across the Pangong Tso, a 135-km-wide glacial melt lake in eastern Ladakh, is in area that continued to be under its illegal occupation since 1962.
“The Government of India has never accepted this illegal occupation,” the Lok Sabha was informed.
On January 6, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi had said the bridge was being constructed in area that had been under illegal occupation of China for around 60 years.