India cannot accept any unilateral change of LAC: Rajnath Singh

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ As the over seven-month-long border standoff with China showed no signs of solution, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said India cannot accept any unilateral change of the Line of Actual Control, and hoped the Ladakh deadlock will be resolved through talks.

Asserting that India has always been in favour of peace, Singh also said the country can never compromise on its dignity and self-respect. The defence minister said there was a possibility of more talks at the military and diplomatic levels.

India and China are locked in a military standoff in eastern Ladakh since early May and have held multiple rounds of diplomatic and military parleys without any concrete outcome. “No, how can this happen? The situation will remain the same as before. India cannot accept unilateral change,” Singh told when asked whether China was trying to change the LAC to make it a permanent one.