NEW DELHI: Setting aside simmering tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after the Doklam troop face-off last year, Indian and Chinese soldiers on Thursday came together to do yoga at a border personnel meeting point (BPM) in Eastern Ladakh.Over 20 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers led by Lt-Colonel Li Ming Zu participated in the joint yoga session with Indian troops from the 1/9 Gorkha Rifles commanded by Colonel Anil Sharma at the Daulat Beg Oldie-Tien Wein Dien BPM, amid sub-zero temperatures at an altitude of 16,942 feet, in the morning.“Indian Army had proposed the joint session on the occasion of International Yoga Day on June 21 at a BPM held last month. The PLA appreciated the offer calling it a genuine peace gesture. In addition to the yoga session, in which the two sides displayed great enthusiasm and bonhomie, PLA soldiers also held a martial arts demonstration and there was a mutual exchange of gifts,” said Army spokesperson Colonel Aman Anand.The Indian armed forces marked the day with yoga being conducted from the world’s highest and coldest battlefield at the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge to warships and submarines on the high seas. But the joint yoga session with PLA soldiers was meant to be a signal that matters are getting back to normal along the 4,057-km lone LAC stretching from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh .But China’s road and other military infrastructure construction in the Doklam area, which is disputed between Beijing and Thimpu, near the Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet tri-junction remains a matter of concern for the Indian security establishment.China has always been keen to usurp Doklam to add strategic depth to its narrow Chumbi Valley, which juts in like a dagger between Sikkim and Bhutan. PLA soldiers, in fact, held a small tactical exercise in the Chumbi Valley earlier this month after informing the Indian side.Indian troops had intervened in mid-July last year when PLA troops had attempted to disrupt the status quo by constructing a road towards the Jampheri Ridge, which overlooks India’s strategically-vulnerable Siliguri Corridor , in the region.Indian soldiers from their Doka La post had stepped down just around 100 meters ahead to physically block PLA troops from extending the road. It had led to the 73-day eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the two armies before troop disengagement from the actual faceoff site on August 28 after extensive diplomatic parleys.But the PLA has continued with its military presence in north Doklam (separated from south Doklam by the Torsa Nala rivulet) after constructing infrastructure and helipads there, as was earlier reported by TOI.