Modi Knelt Down

"Modi knelt down," the Indian general erupted against his own prime minister.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing severe criticism from his country's retired military officers, politicians and the public.

On Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a statement clarifying the incident in Ladakh that China had not entered the Gulwan Valley and had not occupied any Indian outpost. However, Modi's statement on Indian media and social media has since been sharply criticized by opposition politicians, former senior officers of the Indian Army and ordinary citizens, and #ModiSurrendersGalwanValley Curly's hashtag triggered a trend that became Twitter's top trend.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of the largest opposition party, the Congress, also tweeted that the prime minister had withdrawn from his areas against Chinese aggression. If the land belonged to the Chinese, why were our soldiers killed? Where were they killed? It is pertinent to mention that after the two countries' armies came face to face in Ladakh in 2013, Modi had slammed the then Congress government in his election campaign and made loud claims like teaching China a lesson.

On the social networking site Twitter, several former senior officers of the Indian Army also expressed anger and frustration over India's defeat in the Gulwan Valley. Reacting to Narendra Modi's statement, Lieutenant General Rameshwar Rai, who is the Corps Commander in Occupied Kashmir and Commander of India's Southern Command, said in his tweet, "Today is a very unfortunate day. I am thankful that I have retired and my son is not in the army. "

Former military and current journalist Col (retd) Ajay Shukla, who was the first to report on the tensions between China and India in Ladakh, said, "Have I seen Prime Minister Modi today pulling the Sino-Indian border again?" "If no one entered our borders, why 20 soldiers were killed," he said. Does the government think that it will survive by saying anything?