Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sharpened his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last week, pointing to satellite images to claim that China had "captured Indian territory near Pangong Lake".

This comes shortly after he called the Prime Minister "Surender Modi" with reference to an opinion piece in The Japan Times.

In today's tweet Mr Gandhi said the photos "clearly" contradicted the Prime Minister who, during Friday's all-party meeting on the India-China tension, was quoted as saying that "neither is anyone inside our territory nor is any of our post captured".

"The Prime Minister said - neither has anyone entered the country nor has anyone captured our territory. But satellite images clearly show that China has captured Indian territory near Pangong Lake," the Congress MP said in a tweet posted Sunday evening.

Pangong Lake, also in eastern Ladakh, was the site of skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops on May 5 and 6, following which tension between the two sides escalated swiftly. Top-level military talks had appeared to defuse the situation before violence late on the night of June 15 led to 20 Indian soldiers dying for their country.

On Friday, three days after the clash, Prime Minister Modi told a virtual meeting of several opposition parties that "neither is anyone inside our territory nor is any of our post captured".

 China's PLA (People's Liberation Army) moved over 200 trucks, four-wheel drive vehicles, bulldozers and earth-moving equipment into the Galwan region in the week leading up to Monday's violence.

In addition to vehicular movement and the shifting of accommodation, the images show two key areas of concern - debris at the likely site of the clash, which took place a day before the most recent satellite images were taken and a new angle to reinforce the point made by NDTV earlier that China was looking to disturb, and perhaps even obstruct, the flow of the Galwan River.