New Delhi, March 18 -- Following the Chinese foreign ministry's remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing optimism about India-China relations and emphasising the importance of learning and understanding from one another, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that such a reply by China was "not surprising," as the Prime Minister had already given a "clean chit to China."

"This is not surprising that China has sent a formal reply and said that this is a dance between China's dragon and India's elephant. On June 19, 2020, when our Prime Minister was a non-biological PM, then he had given this statement where he gave a clean chit to China," Ramesh told ANI.

Ramesh played purportedly a clip of PM Modi from 2020, where in the video the ...