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Udhayanidhi Stalin gets some lessons on history

DMK Youth Wing Secretary and ‘actor’ Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday (June 19) had put out a tweet that said no clash had happened between Indian and Chinese army after 1960 and went on to say that in 1975, 4 Indian soldiers had lost their lives in an attack by the Chinese. He added that though there had been skirmishes in between, it was after 40 years that it has gone to the situation of losing lives. “We have lost 20 precious soldiers”, he said.

However, his tweet was laden with so many errors getting even basic post-independent history of India wrong. Common netizens, public personalities and political parties on twitter called out the ignorance of the youth wing secretary of the DMK and offered some lessons on history.

The Indo-China war happened in 1962, two year after 1960 as mentioned by Udhayanidhi in his tweet. There were two incidents of firing in late 1967 – one was called the Nathu La incident and the other was called Cho La incident. These two incidents saw casualties on both Indian and Chinese side. Indian Defence Ministry had reported that 88 were martyred and 163 were wounded on the Indian side while the Chinese lost 340 soldiers and 450 getting wounded. However, the Chinese side reported that 32 Chinese and 65 Indian soldiers were lost in the Nathu La incident and the Cho La incident saw the loss of 36 Indian soldiers and an ‘unknown’ number of Chinese soldiers.

However, Udayanidhi Stalin says in his tweet that there was no direct confrontation between India and China after 1960.

The AIADMK IT Wing’s official account tweeted “An idiot who doesn’t even know what school children knows but claims to be from a ‘rationalist’ movement”.

BJP Tamil Nadu Youth Wing Vice President SG Suryah also took a dig at Udayanidhi Stalin saying that the latter cannot even get basic history right but is offering advices to Prime Minister and considers himself to be a future leader.

Here are some other reactions to Udhayanidhi Stalin’s tweet.

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