Shocking! Minister says Indian Soldiers with guns were killed with Rods

The Foreign Minister today made a shocking statement on Twitter!

Let us get the facts straight.

All troops on border duty always carry arms, especially when leaving post. Those at Galwan on 15 June did so. Long-standing practice (as per 1996 & 2005 agreements) not to use firearms during faceoffs. https://t.co/VrAq0LmADp
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) June 18, 2020

In another tweet ex-Army and strong critic of the Govt, Ajai Shukla posted a picture of Rods used by the Chinese PLA to kill Indians

The nail-studded rods — captured by Indian soldiers from the Galwan Valley encounter site — with which Chinese soldiers attacked an Indian Army patrol and killed 20 Indian soldiers.

Such barbarism must be condemned. This is thuggery, not soldiering pic.twitter.com/nFcNpyPHCQ
— Ajai Shukla (@ajaishukla) June 18, 2020

Basically what the Foreign Ministry is saying that as the Chinese soldiers killed Indians with these nailed roads, fully armed Indian soldiers did nothing. The argument put by the Foreign Minister sounds bizarre. Even if the soldiers were not allowed to fire their guns, the least they could do was to fire in the air to disperse the rod wielding PLA troops

The information seems somewhat incomplete and we await more information from the authorities