Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to celebrate Dussehra with soldiers in Tawang

Singh’s decision to celebrate Dussehra with the soldiers at the strategically important location that is close to the Line of Actual Control comes at a time when India and China have been engaged in a bitter standoff in certain friction points in eastern Ladakh for more than three years Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will celebrate Dussehra with Army soldiers at a forward base in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang on Tuesday, sources in the security establishment said. Singh’s decision to celebrate Dussehra with the soldiers at the strategically important location that is close to the Line of Actual Control comes at a time when India and China have been engaged in a bitter standoff in certain friction points in eastern Ladakh for more than three years. Singh has been performing “Shastra Puja” on Dussehra for the last several years, including during his tenure as the Union home minister in the previous BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government. The Indian and Chinese troops are locked in an over-three-year-long confrontation in certain friction points in eastern Ladakh even as the two sides have completed disengagement from several areas following extensive diplomatic and military talks.