Against expansionist imperial policy: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

New Delhi, June 21

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a veiled reference to China, today said India is known as a country which never attacks another nation and is against the expansionist imperial policies.

He said India is fully capable of giving a strong response if its sovereignty is threatened in any way. The Minister was at a function to celebrate the International Day of Yoga at the headquarters of the 1 Strike Corps, Mathura.

Elements of the 1 Strike Corps, for the past three years or so, are located along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China. India and China are locked in a military stand-off along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh since April 2020. The minister was addressing the officers and troops who did yoga with him at Mathura.

Rajnath commended the soldiers of 1 Strike Corps for displaying valour and dedication, whenever the country needed them. The minister compared the fitness derived from yoga saying, every Indian soldier is, in a way, a yogi. The world has seen the physical and mental fitness of our soldiers.