India-China border row: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to address Parliament today

Amid the India-China border row at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address the lower house of Parliament at 3 pm on Tuesday. The statement would assume significance in the backdrop of demands made by the Opposition for a debate on the issue.

The defence minister had met his Chinese counterpart  Gen Wei Fenghe in Moscow recently on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi had also met in Moscow a few days ago.

The monsoon session 2020 of the Parliament, which commenced today, was the first Parliament session held amid the COVID-19 pandemic. All safety measures had been initiated to conduct the session as per health guidelines amid COVID-19.

In a first of its kind initiative, the members of Parliament also marked their attendance through an app on Monday, according to the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

The Lok Sabha members were tested at the Parliament House on September 13 and 14-- a during a mandatory test for those attending this year`s Monsoon Session which will end on October 1.