Chennai: Tamilnadu Deputy Chief Minister and AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and DMK president M K Stalin will participate in an all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening to discuss the India- China clash at Ladakh.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh dialed party chiefs last evening to invite them to the meeting.
The Congress and other opposition parties have been questioning the government on the face-off with China in the Galwan Valley area in eastern Ladakh on Monday, in which 20 soldiers were killed. There were heavy casualties also on the Chinese side in the biggest military escalation between the neighbours in nearly five decades.
Beijing has released no official figures, but army sources say at least 45 Chinese soldiers were killed or injured.
Some 76 India soldiers were injured and 20 were killed as the Chinese assaulted them with hand-made weapons like spiked clubs, rods wrapped in barbed wire and rocks.