Indian, Chinese troops exchange sweets at border points along LAC on Diwali

Indian and Chinese troops exchanged sweets at several border points on Thursday, along LAC (Line of Actual Control) on occasion of Diwali, PTI quoted Army sources say.

This comes after Indian Army and Chinese People’s Liberation Army on Wednesday completed the disengagement process at Depsang and Demchok areas of eastern Ladakh, paving the way for the troops to start the patrolling of the Line of Actual Control.

The disengagement - relocating the troops, weapons, equipment and shelters to a position where they were before April 2020 – took a little more than a week to complete since Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on October 21 said an agreement was finalised following negotiations over the past several weeks and it would lead to a resolution of the issues that arose in 2020.

After four years of a tense stand-off including the violent Galwan episode that marked the biggest India-China border crisis since the 1962 war, the two sides were able to achieve a breakthrough on the last of the two friction points at Demchok and Depsang.

(With DHNS inputs)
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