Defence Minister A.K. Antony watered down the contents of National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) report on Chinese aggression, highlighted by Headlines Today on Thursday, in a statement made in the Lok Sabha on Friday.The minister chose to deny the veracity of the report rather than giving a plan to counter China's aggression. Headlines Today happens to be the only channel to have the full details of the damning report, a ground assessment that shockingly found that 640 sq km of Indian territory has been taken over by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the last few months.Though Antony confirmed the NSAB report on the status along the Line of Actual Control (LoAC), he told the House that it doesn't mention China has grabbed any part of Indian territory."I want to state clearly that Shyam Saran has not said in his report that China has captured our land or we are not allowed to patrol our areas. There is no question of giving any part of our land to China. We are firmly dealing with our security. We are also strengthening our capabilities at border continuously," the minister said in the Lok Sabha.However, Antony did not mention in his statement the part of NSAB report which mentions area denial of 640 sq km to India by the PLA. He also did not mention that patrolling limits becoming de facto LoAC has been mentioned in the NSAB report with inputs from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).Moreover, the defence minister did not mention that the NSAB report has made specific recommendations regarding need for access infrastructure on border. He also forgot to mention that the report has been shared with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), National Security Advisor (NSA) and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).Antony did not even mention that it was after the NSAB report inputs were shared with the CCS that the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, who was part of the committee, suggested that a C-130J Super Hercules sortie be mounted to Daulet Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region at the earliest to raise confidence levels in troops in the area.Rightly then, the Samajwadi Party and the BJP, which took up the issue strongly earlier in the House, rejected the government's attempts to water down the findings of NSAB.