Have reached an agreement with China for disengagement in Pangong lake area: Rajnath Singh

Defence minister Rajnath Singh informed the parliament that disengagement at LAC  in north and south Pangong lake area began on Wednesday. Rajnath Singh’s statement in the parliament on the present situation in eastern Ladakh came after reports emerged that both countries have started disengaging their frontline troops from the key sector.

Earlier, both countries had deployed thousands of troopers along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) after skirmishes between the troops of both countries led to the death of twenty Indian soldiers and unspecified numbers of Chinese troops in the fierce hand-to-hand combat on June 15 in Galwan Valley, an incident that marked the most serious military conflicts between the two sides in decades.

Soldiers of both the countries were battling minus 30-degree celsius temperature in some parts of the disputed India-China border.