The paper added that China having placed high-resolution cameras at vantage points, the Army was restricting the movement of grazers by installing check-posts and deploying plainclothes personnel. The paper also recorded loss of pasture lands at Gogra hills, the north bank of Pangong Tso, and Kakjung areas.

· On 22 October 2024, China confirmed that it had reached an agreement with India to resolve its four-year military standoff following a similar announcement by Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri the previous day.

· A report in The Hindu in September 2020 had this to say: “About 1,000 square kilometres of area in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is now under Chinese control, intelligence inputs provided to the Centre suggest. A senior government official told The Hindu that from Depsang Plains to Chushul there had been a systematic mobilisation by the Chinese troops along the undefined LAC.”

· In March 2024, around 10,000 people from Ladakh planned to march to the border to showcase how much land had been lost to the neighbouring country, climate activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk announced. “We know from the shepherds that they are not allowed [anymore] to go to the places that they always used to go. In particular areas, they are stopped kilometres before where they used to go earlier. We will go and show whether land has been lost or not,” he said. That march was disallowed by the administration.

Foreign intelligence reports quoted by Western think tanks and international media also pointed to satellite imagery to show increased Chinese occupation of Indian territory after the Galwan clash. The fact that since then, several rounds of border talks have taken place involving commanders on the ground in Ladakh, also indicates the loss of some Indian territory.

What the LOP has been demanding on behalf of the Opposition is a thorough discussion on the claims and counter claims in Parliament. The government’s stubborn refusal to allow such a discussion is what the LOP has repeatedly highlighted.