Beijing/New Delhi: A controversy was kicked&nbsp;up today with China's state-owned television CCTV showing&nbsp;India's map without Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh&nbsp;while reporting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit.
The wrong map was displayed during a bulletin when Modi&nbsp;was in Xi'an city where he held talks with Chinese President&nbsp;Xi Jinping in his hometown.&nbsp;
China has been laying territorial claim over Arunachal&nbsp;Pradesh and parts of Jammu and Kashmir but India has been&nbsp;strongly resisting it.&nbsp;
The unresolved boundary issue has been a sticking point&nbsp;in the relations between the two major Asian countries and&nbsp;both are making efforts to settle it through Special&nbsp;Representatives' talks. The Special Representatives have held&nbsp;18 rounds of discussions so far.
China says the border dispute is confined only to 2,000&nbsp;kms mostly in Arunachal Pradesh whereas India asserts that the&nbsp;dispute covered the western side of the border spanning to&nbsp;about 4,000 kms, especially the Aksai Chin area ceded to China&nbsp;by Pakistan.
Taking strong objection to depiction of the Indian map&nbsp;wrongly, Congress questioned the Prime Minister whether he&nbsp;would raise the issue strongly with the Chinese leadership.
"Official Chinese media is showing maps depicting&nbsp;Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as Chinese territory and the&nbsp;entire state of Jammu and Kashmir out of India's boundary,"
Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said and asked,&nbsp;"Will the Prime Minister take up the issue strongly and as a&nbsp;first priority with the Chinese leadership?"
He said the party has several fundamental which need to&nbsp;be addressed by the government "on priority."
Surjewala said that in 2013, the UPA government had&nbsp;announced the formation of the Mountain Strike Corps (MSC), a&nbsp;90,000 strong Army battalion specifically to prevent intrusion&nbsp;by Chinese troops, at a cost of Rs.64,478 cr.
"However just three weeks ahead of the PM's visit to&nbsp;China, the Defence Ministry has reduced the sanctioned&nbsp;strength of this battalion by 50 per cent. The official reason&nbsp;given was a severe fund shortage," he claimed.
The Congress spokesman sought to know whether country&iquest;s&nbsp;defence preparedness will be compromised by this decision and&nbsp;whether there is a "shifting of poles" qua strategic decision?&nbsp;
Surjewala also brought to the notice of the Prime&nbsp;Minister that China has already committed over USD 46 billion&nbsp;of investment in Pakistan, including in Pakistan Occupied&nbsp;Kashmir. These investments include trains, highways, military&nbsp;equipment and ports.&nbsp;
"Does it not interfere with India&iquest;s sovereign claim over&nbsp;the territory and whether it amounts to balancing out India in&nbsp;geo-political arena," he asked.&nbsp;
Noting that just days before the PM's visit, BJP&nbsp;President Amit Shah had cancelled his scheduled meeting with&nbsp;the Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, Surjewala asked, "Does it&nbsp;mean re-shifting of goal post on part of the Government?"
He said stapled visas to people from Arunachal Pradesh&nbsp;continue to be a major issue of concern. He recalled that last year, Kiren Rijiju was reportedly told not to attend the&nbsp;banquet hosted by Prime Minister in honour of the visiting&nbsp;Chinese President.
China's plan to build multiple dams on Bramhaputra and&nbsp;its impact on Assam remain an open issue even today, he said&nbsp;adding that the repeated incursion by Chinese army into Indian&nbsp;territory including Ladakh have always remained a source of&nbsp;major flash point between the two countries.

A controversy was kicked&nbsp;up today with China's state-owned television CCTV showing&nbsp;India's map without Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh&nbsp;while reporting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit

Chinese state TV shows India's map without J&K and Arunachal Pradesh

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A controversy was kicked&nbsp;up today with China's state-owned television CCTV showing&nbsp;India's map without Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh&nbsp;while reporting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit

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