The Jai Hinds hate those like Shukla and Pravin and hunt for small instances where they are wrong rather than what they get right or evaluating them on their points, arguments and evidence. Because they often speak the uncomfortable truth but they are real patriots of India, at least Shukla surely is whereas Pravin is more pro-peace with Pakistan and pro-working with China so that's enough to call him a traitor and working for Pakistan lol.
Guys like Shukla are staunchly pro India but when they speak uncomfortable truths for India's "pride" and "glory", they are labeled as "anti-nationals" by the crowd that care only for PR wins and ego soothing half-truths.
Ajai Shukla is not pro India, he is pro Congress. Just go back to 2013 when China first started building up heavily in Depsang, and he never said a word, even though by his logic, that was when india "lost" land in terms of patrols of claimed territory. In addition, he tries to contradict satellite imagery by using supposed claim lines that aren't even backed up by Indian and non Indian sources. There are several veterans, such as S/ dinny and Syed Hasnain, who are not fans of the Modi Gov. but still support the Indian narrative. Even Retired Gen. Gurmit Singh, who served during the last Congress Government, has said the Modi. Gov. handled this standoff better than the previous gov. If you want to truly get the whole truth, look at what Nitin Gokhale is saying. He actually visits Ladakh forward locations and speaks to people actually serving on the ground. Ironically, people like Shukla have called him a BJP mouthpiece for reporting on the current sit But that is beside the point.
And India never patrolled up exactly to the dotted line in most sectors, the patrol routes taken by indian soldiers typicalyy fall about 1 km short.
And india does not even claim, yet alone patrol up to the blue line. The exception was Depsang. In gogra and Hot Springs, it is China with the differeing perspectives, not India. China actually claims a significant amount of land on the Indian side of the dotted line, some of which India recently occupied during the standoff.
As for Demchok, That is one area mostly controlled by India that China claims in its entirlety. Making it more complicated is that the area is inhabited by around 5-6 hundred people or so. The issue is primarily related to grazing rights. There was previously an informal agreement to allow nomads by both sides to graze on disputed fields along the lac. However, beginning last year, PLA stopped nomads from grazing. Local residents also claimed PLA was using Chinese nomads to intrude on their land, leading to more confrontations between ITBP and PLA Here is a good videp from last year of an incident like that.
Keep in mind that this actually happened before 2020 on and off, and there have even been prolonged standoffs in 2014. So India does not consider this to be a part of the current standoff.
Also imporntant to consider that there are civillian villages right on both sides right across from each other. This is the Chinese village shown on Google maps.
The Indian side is shown as a power plant, just across.
This is an older videos of the area, to give an idea of what it is like
A more recent image of tanks across the Indus near lac
Recently, India has also built a road conecting Demchok to Chushul
