New Delhi, April 16 -- BJP leader Bishnu Pada Ray, who is also the party's Lok Sabha candidate from Andaman and Nicobar has said that Jawahar Lal Nehru led Congress government gifted the Coco Islands to Myanmar. He made these remarks in a recent interview given to a leading Indian news agency.

He said that Congress has always been working against the interests of India. Ray stated, "Nehru gifted the Coco Islands, which were part of the Northern Andaman Islands, to Myanmar, which is currently under China's direct control." They did not worry about the islands in the 70 years they were in power. Today, the central government is constructing a shipyard, and two defence airports to counter China in Campbell Bay, which is also known as Indira...