Rejecting  Congress leader Rahul  Gandhi’s charge that China has encroached on Indian territory, the BJP on Friday accused  the Congress governments since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru of  allowing Tibet to go to Beijing and even feeding Chinese occupational forces in Tibet in 1952  which, it said , was then sharing  borders with India and not China.

Addressing a Press conference here at the BJP headquarters, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi  alleged that Congress government’s flip-flops on Chinese issues have left many legacy issues to be resolved by the present dispensation. He said it is the opposition party which has committed "historic, unpardonable crime" in dealings with Beijing.

“Rahul  is prone to making baseless, absurd comments” said  the ruling BJP reacting sharply to the allegations of Rahul who during his ongoing  Ladakh visit accused that  "China has snatched away thousands of kilometers of India's land”.

Trivedi quoted from selected works of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to say that his government had sent over 3,500 tonnes of rice in 1952 for the consumption of the Chinese Army which was "starving". He also asked the Congress to release its reported agreement with the Chinese Communist Party when the UPA was in power.

The BJP spokesman alleged that the decision to send rice for the Chinese Army when India's relations with China had started getting strained was not a mistake but a "historic and unpardonable" crime.  India had then borders with Tibet and not with China, Trivedi said.

(In 1959 Tibetan leader Dalai Lalma had fled from Tibet , taking refuse in India.)

Trivedi  said that the former Congress president makes remarks on India, its people and the RSS in a similar vein.

The BJP leader recalled as how , recognizing the “splendid services” rendered by the RSS during the 1962 war with China , Nehru  had  invited  the RSS  to the Republic day parade on January 26, 1963, and also  “ effusively praised”  it. 

Trivedi asked Rahul to clarify whether Nehru was correct in his assessment of the RSS in assessing its  services  or ‘Deshbhakti’ to the Nation.  The Congress leader  should decide if he is right or Nehru was, Trivedi said.

The BJP spokesman asked the Congress leader to come clean on its agreement with the Communist party of China. During the Doklam crisis, Trivedi said the congress leader  had met the Chinese ambassador.The BJP leader asserted the government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has notched up unprecedented success in its handling of India's military, diplomatic and economic affairs.

The Congress has always tried to weaken the country when in the opposition, he said and asked the party to learn from the BJP which supported the then governments during crisis involving neighbours be it Pakistan or China.

While the Congress government refused to punish Pakistan for its support to terrorism as it thought that this will harm peace talks, Modi's policy is that terror and talks cannot go together. There is an atmosphere of peace and security while terror blasts routinely happened under the UPA, he said. Trivedi also mocked the opposition's criticism of a national award for 'The Kashmir Files'.