Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must speak on the steps being taken on "encroachment" of the country`s territories by China.

Asked about the PM`s interview to Newsweek magazine, Pawar, a former Defence minister, said Modi criticised the Congress for ceding an island (Katchatheevu) to Sri Lanka in 1974 but he must also speak on "encroachment of Indian territories by China".