Showing of a banner is a standard operating procedure and is called the ‘banner drill.’ It is done when troops of the two sides come face-to-face due to differences on the alignment of the LAC or any other reason. Whenever either side perceives that a transgression has been made across the LAC, soldiers show a banner with a slogan painted across. The banner primarily cites the 2005 agreement and says there is a need to back off from the present positions of patrolling.
Before this incident, the system was working well. The mandate of the 2005 agreement is: “Throughout the face-to-face situation, neither side shall use force or threaten to use force against the other”.
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