01:55I would have handled Doklam issue differently, says Rahul Gandhi at IISS in London

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Doklam standoff with China was not an "isolated issue" but part of a "sequence of events" and if Prime Minister Narendra Modi was carefully watching the process, India could have stopped it.However, to a question on whether he would have handled the situation differently had he been in power, the Congress chief replied that he does not have enough details to be able to give an answer."I don't have the details of Doklam so I can't answer how I would have handled it differently," Rahul said in response to the query.Interestingly, Rahul is a member of the parliamentary committee on external affairs which had examined the various aspects of the India-China military standoff at Doklam.Earlier this year, Rahul had also quizzed the foreign secretary on Doklam, asking him "why China chose the region to create a confrontation".He, along with other members of the parliamentary panel, had asked about reports of a fresh Chinese buildup near Doklam, to which the officials responded that "nothing has been done in the Indian territory."Rahul had also met Chinese ambassador Luo Zhaohui in July last year, when troops of both the nations were engaged in a stand-off at Doklam.In a series of tweets, Rahul had said, “It is my job to be informed on critical issues. I met the Chinese ambassador, ex-NSA (Shivshankar Menon), Congress leaders from north-east and the Bhutanese ambassador.“Addressing a gathering today at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, Rahul questioned Modi government's strategy on Doklam, and said that the Centre could have prevented the crisis."If he (PM Modi) was carefully watching the process, he could've stopped it," Gandhi said at the London-based think-tank.He went on to claim that the "Chinese are still in Doklam".