A group of activists as well as organisations in various parts of India burned photos and an effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in response to the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in a violent skirmish with the Chinese army in Ladakh on Monday night.
People gathered in groups to vent their anger, with placards reading “traitor China” and chanted slogans against the country to the sound of drums.
The protests were seen in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat as well as Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal.
An Indian man burns a photograph of Chinese president Xi Jinping during a protest against China in Ahmedabad, India ✌️#GalwanValley #LadakhBorder #BoycottChineseProduct #FreeTibet #FreeHongKong #gobackchina #indiachinastandoff @HuXijin_GT @chinaorgcn @CGTNOfficial @CNN @XHNews pic.twitter.com/EQIZzNcf6c
— ARYA (@ARYA98241902) June 17, 2020
वाराणसी में लोगों ने चीनी झंडा और चीनी राष्ट्रपति शी चिनफिंग का पुतला जलाया।#Varanasi #China pic.twitter.com/SL0626r4Kl
— उत्तर-प्रदेश समाचार (@liveupsnews) June 17, 2020
Varanasi: People under the banner of an NGO Vishal Bharat Sansthan burn Chinese flag & effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping. #IndiaChinaBorder pic.twitter.com/lIwsOAavdS
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 17, 2020
Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, a political and cultural organisation affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s parent organisation RSS, led a protest to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi today to agitate over the border skirmish.
The members of the organisation were detained by police outside the Chinese Embassy for carrying out the protest.
#WATCH Delhi Police detain Swadeshi Jagran Manch members and some Army veterans who were protesting outside China's Embassy to India. #IndiaChinaFaceOff pic.twitter.com/fkLmI7qDFb PMOIndia #xenoh
— Aditya Lok Pathak (@Xenohadi) June 17, 2020
Indian student organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) also demonstrated outside the Chinese Consulate in Kolkata, West Bengal.
ABVP_GONDA 🚩
— Aashutosh Gupta – श्री राम भक्त ✪ (@itashuofficial) June 17, 2020
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जिला संयोजक शिवम् पाण्डेय जी के नेतृत्व में आज अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद, गोण्डा के कार्यकर्ताओं द्वारा चाइना के विरोध में चाइना क़े प्रधानमंत्री का पुतला फूँक किया प्रदर्शन !!
जिला प्रमुख E-ABVP@GhanshyamShahi1 @Shreeharib1 @ABVPVoice @irahulvalmiki pic.twitter.com/fcv8lSF3f0
The recent escalation between the two countries has been followed by several high-level and late-night talks between defence officials, the foreign ministry, and other authorities in New Delhi.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, in a statement, accused India “of going back on its word” and violating commitments reached by both sides during army commander-level talks on 6 June.
"The Indian Army violated its commitment and crossed the LAC again, illegally and deliberately launched provocative attacks, triggered fierce physical confrontation between the two sides, resulting in casualties", said PLA Western Theatre Command spokesperson Zhang Shuili.
