Bipin Rawat meets soldiers who were deployed in Doklam

Sikkim Dec 04: Army chief General Bipin Rawat made a low-profile trip to the Sikkim border last week to meet soldiers involved in a 73-day border standoff with Chinese troops at Doklam earlier this year.

The Doklam face-off ended on August 28, after both India and China agreed to pull back their troops. Bejing removed its road-laying equipment from the area too.

Rawat spend most of his time with soldiers who were deployed in Doklam.

The neighbouring country had accused India of trespassing and preventing its troops from building a road in the remote Himalayan plateau, which is claimed by both China and Bhutan. However, a repeat of the summer standoff cannot be ruled out.