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Arunachal Pradesh: Army denies BJP MP's claim that Chinese soldiers built bridge in Indian territory

The Indian Army has denied the claim of a Bharatiya Janata Party MP in Arunachal Pradesh that Chinese soldiers had built a wooden bridge almost 75 km inside Indian territory,

The Indian Express reported on Thursday.

BJP state President Tapir Gao, who represents Arunachal East in the Lok Sabha, claimed the bridge was built on a stream, identified as Doimru Nallah, almost 25 km from Chaglagam in Anjaw district. The McMohan Line, which marks the border between India and China, is about 100 km from there. He said a villager who went to the woods to fish and hunt saw the bridge and sent him a video. “As a representative of that area, I could not hide it,” Gao added. He told local website Arunachal24.in

that the video was shot by a BJP worker last month while he was patrolling the area with Indian soldiers.

The parliamentarian said this alleged incursion was a “regular phenomenon” and that Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers had entered other areas also.

“In 2018, when Indian patrolling party went there, they could see that PLA was there and they had constructed a tent house,” the MP told The Indian Express. “During that interaction, they resolved [the dispute] amicably, but it was very much inside the Indian territory. This...

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