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NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reiterated his claims on Doklam crisis, saying that Chinese troops are still present on the plateau, reported news agency ANI.The Congress chief, who was addressing an event organized by the Indian Journalist Association in London, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to China, yet he stopped short of discussing the Doklam issue with Beijing.Yesterday, Rahul, during an event by the International Institute of Social Sciences in London had said that the crisis on India's border with China shouldn't be viewed in isolation."I don't have the details of Doklam, so I can't answer how I would've handled it differently. What I can tell you is that Doklam is not an unrelated episode, it's not a one-off, it is not a border issue, it is a strategic issue."It is a part of a sequence of events and Doklam was a crisis that happened because the government is episodic," he added.Gandhi further said: "...the government and the PM view things very much from an event's perspective. I view Doklam as a process, a point in the process. The PM views Doklam as an event."He said: "So I would look at the process and I would tackle the process and I am pretty confident that Doklam wouldn't have happened...because you could've stopped Doklam if you were carefully watching the process.""The Chinese have withdrawn from the point of contact, they've withdrawn from where the altercation happened. (But) The truth is the Chinese are still in Doklam," he added.