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Jaishankar spoke after the return of troops from Depsang, Demchok - The next step will be to reduce the tension in India-China relations.

  
  
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  Mumbai: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that the withdrawal of troops in Ladakh's Depsang and Demchok is the first step and it is hoped that India will return to the 2020 patrolling status. The External Affairs Minister pointed clearly at China and said that the next step is to de-escalate tensions. However, this will not happen until India is convinced that the same is happening on the other side. How to manage the borders will be discussed after the tension subsides. Earlier this week, India announced that it had reached an agreement with China to patrol the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. This is a major breakthrough towards ending the military standoff in eastern Ladakh for more than four years. Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Jaishankar said that a general consensus has been reached on patrolling and retreating in Depsang and Demchok. It is clear that it will take time to implement. This is the issue of withdrawal and patrolling, which means that our forces had come very close to each other and now they have gone back to their positions. We hope that the situation in 2020 will be restored. Rejecting the allegations of diverting investment from Maharashtra to Gujarat, Jaishankar said that investors have their own calculations. They will choose such a state government, which is capable and efficient. In the last ten years, not all projects have come to BJP-ruled states. In view of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, he said that there is a need for such a government in the state, whose ideology is similar to that of the central government. Maharashtra is a progressive state in industry and infrastructure. A developed Maharashtra is important to achieve the goal of a developed India. India did not respond after 26/11: Jaishankar Indirectly attacking the then Manmohan Singh government, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India did not respond to the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. If such an incident happens at this time, India will not remain silent. Double standards on terrorism are not acceptable and India will act wherever action is required to expose terrorism. He said that what happened in Mumbai, we should not let it repeat itself. There was a terrorist attack and there was no reaction, but today under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is progressive in the fight against terrorism and has a policy of zero tolerance towards it. This is not the first time that Jaishankar has commented on the Mumbai attack. In April of the same year, he had said that after the Mumbai attack, the National Security Adviser of the UPA government had written that we sat and discussed. We considered all the alternatives. Then we decided to do nothing. We felt that there would be a high price to pay for attacking Pakistan. It may be mentioned that Pakistan sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists carried out the Mumbai terror attack on November 26, 2008. In this, 166 people were killed and more than 300 people were injured.
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