Even as the stand-offs persist at the Line of Actual Control(LAC)in Ladakh for the last one and half years, Rajya Sabha member and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday claimed he was not allowed to ask a question on the issue on the pretext of national interest.Making this claim, he said the Rajya Sabha Secretariat has disallowed his question on whether the Chinese have crossed the LAC in Ladakh.
"It is hilarious if not tragic for Rajya Sabha Secretariat to inform me today that my Question whether the Chinese have crossed the LAC in Ladakh, cannot be allowed, ' because of national interest' !!!," Swamy said in a tweet.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had during an all-party meeting on the issue last year stated that no one had entered India or has occupied its territory. A senior official of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said, "The secretariat goes by the recommendation of the ministry concerned if sensitive issues are involved."