Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Noting that China violated agreements by bringing several troops to the LAC in Ladakh in 2020, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar on Tuesday said India deployed troops in retaliation and it was "very It was an "unusual deployment". Speaking at the Develop India event in Kolkata on Tuesday, Jaishankar said China had brought troops to the Line of Actual Control at a time when India was under Covid lockdown and none of us should ignore the country's security. The experience of 1962 should remind us a lot because some people are in denial...but it was not after 1962 that Rajiv Gandhi went to China, it was an important step towards normalizing our relations. The move was a very clear understanding that we will discuss our border differences, but we will maintain our peace on the border. “What has changed now is in 2020.In 2020, China brought large numbers of troops to the border in violation of multiple agreements, and they did so while we were under COVID lockdown in this country...We deployed our forces in response... And then, we had a clash in Galwan,” the External Affairs Minister said. Jaishankar said, “The tension between the two countries is not a matter of what happened 62 years ago, but what is happening today.” "And for four years, both of us have been deployed there beyond our normal base posts, normal patrolled areas. So this is a very unusual deployment today on the Line of Actual Control..." "Now given this tension between the two countries It is not that we had a conflict 62 years ago, this is the border today but as citizens of India, none of us can and should not continue to do so throughout our lives. We can say that this is not a matter of our concern, hence, it is a challenge today.The pandemic began in May 2020, when Chinese troops tried to aggressively change the status quo along the LAC in eastern Ladakh, with both sides deployed in forward positions near patrolling points. 15, which was the site of friction after the Galwan clash emerged as a flashpoint, over 50,000 Indian troops have been deployed with advanced weapons since 2020 to prevent any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo on the LAC. Amid border tensions, in March, India and China exchanged views on ways to achieve complete disengagement and resolve issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the western sector of the India-China border areas. Meanwhile, India in January this year reiterated its long-standing stance on China and said that talks between the two countries were ongoing. Diplomatic and military side for some kind of solution “India's position on China is very well known.This is a relationship that is not normal for me, but we had talks in October and November on both the military side and the diplomatic side. And the idea is that we engage so that we can find some kind of solution," Foreign Ministry official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during the first weekly media briefing. There has been a military standoff between the two countries for the last three years since May. In 2020, China tried to aggressively change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control.