President Rajendra Prasad declared here today that India would not accept “the course or the results of unilateral action or decisions taken by China” on the common frontier between India and China.

New Delhi, Feb. 8: President Rajendra Prasad declared here today that India would not accept “the course or the results of unilateral action or decisions taken by China” on the common frontier between India and China.
He reiterated India’s peaceful approach for a settlement of the Sino-Indian border issue “under appropriate conditions and of being determined and ready to defend out country.”
The President was inaugurating the budget session of Parliament with an address to a joint sitting of both Houses in the huge circular Central Hall of Parliament. Dressed in a black sherwani, the President drove in state in a shining black coach accompanied by his mounted bodyguard in their colourful uniform.
He was received at the western portico of Parliament House by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Dr S. Radhakrishnan, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Mr M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar and secretaries of the two Houses and conducted in procession to the hall. Two buglers heralded the arrival of the President. Members of the diplomatic crops were present at the opening ceremony.
The President first read out his address in Hindi and then in English, taking more than an hour. The address was longer than usual.
Dr Prasad said, “My Government particularly deplore the unilateral use of force by our neighbour (China) on our common frontier where no military units of the Union were functioning. This is a breach of faith..... the incursions into parts of the territory of the Union of India across our traditional and well understood borders by elements of Chinese forces have deeply distressed our people and evoked legitimate and widespread resentment.”