During an election rally on December 30 in Uttarakhand, Modi had said that his government is expanding the road built across the Lipulekh area, which the Himalayan state also claims as its own.
"Since some of them [the injured] are in a critical condition, the death toll may go up," Jalpaiguri district magistrate Moumita Godara Basu said.
The two Asian giants released a joint press release stating that there had been a “frank and in-depth exchange of views for the resolution of the relevant views along the LAC in the Western Sector”.
“Why are you speaking against the government? Why are you so against the chief minister? These were the questions they kept asking,” recalls a detained reporter from a Telugu digital news channel.