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Arunachal is ours, PM can go there: India to China

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Posted online: Friday , February 08, 2008 at 07:49:40
Updated: Friday , February 08, 2008 at 08:07:32


New Delhi, February 8: Amidst warming of ties, China has taken exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh and his assertion that the state belongs to India, evoking a strong reaction from New Delhi.

Almost a week after Singh visited Arunachal Pradesh and said the state was ‘our land of rising sun’, Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have conveyed to officials in the Indian Mission in Beijing that they were unhappy with the visit and his comments there.

Beijing feels that it was not appropriate for the Prime Minister to visit a state, major parts of which it claims are its territory.

In a sharp reaction, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee asserted that Arunachal Pradesh was part of India and the Prime Minister has right to visit any part of the country.

"Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of our country. We are having regular representation in our Parliament elected by people of Arunachal Pradesh. Therefore, it is quite obvious that the Prime Minister will visit any part of the country," Mukherjee said in Mumbai.

Singh, during his maiden visit to Arunachal on January 31, had said that the state was ‘our land of rising sun’, in a clear message to China that it belongs to India.

The Chinese unhappiness comes more than a fortnight after Singh had a good visit to Beijing when the two countries agreed to expedite resolution of the boundary issue.

Chinese claim over Arunachal has been nagging the ties between the two countries for long. The issue gets flared up when the Chinese troops at regular intervals intrude into the Indian territory to demonstrate their claim on the land.

India has, however, been seeking to play down these incursions by arguing that these were a result of ‘differences in perception’.

The Special Representatives of the two countries are working out a solution as per the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles signed in 2005.

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Reg : Shameless China by Piyush Mody on 11 Feb 2008

China will demand New Delhi and Maharashtra also and to prove that china will bring 1000 yrs old Map and will pressure India. Our stupid leaders wil then sit across table for negotiations. India has to Bluntly tell china to Handover Aksai chin and Mansarovar Including whole Tibet. If required India must use now force. Also declare Taiwan as Independent country and not part of china

Arunachalam by arun on 11 Feb 2008

why we should make this news as big news--Arunachalam is integral part of India since thousnad yers-even some part of China is also part of great India-travelling of Budha from India to China is the signficant fact of our coultre accepted byo them-so question of dispute doesn't arise-keep our army alert all the time against untrusted neighbour

TIME TO SLAP CHINESE by Pankaj on 10 Feb 2008

SOME VIEW TO DEFENCE MINISTRY HOW TO MAKE BORDERS TOUGH1) WE HAVE HIMALAYA FROM AHGANISTAN TO ARUNACHAL A GREAt nature wall of india.2) HIMALAYA MOUNTAIN HAS STRONG UNBREAKABLE BOULDERS AND STONE WALLS ON ITS RANGE IF WE CUT AND PLANT ON WHOLE CHINESE BORDERS OF A HEIGHT MEASURING UPTO 500 FEETS IT WILL WORK AS GREAT WALL OF INDIA AND KEEP CHINESE AT BAY --------JUST CUT STONE WALL OF MOUNTAINS AND PLANT ON BORDERSSAME WE HAVE SO MANY STONE BIG BOULDERS IN OUR HIMALAYAS , WESTERN GHATS, NILGIRIS, IN RAJASTHAN WHICH ARE LYING IDLY ON INDIAN JUNGLE , MOUNTAIN RANGE, VILLAGE ----GATHER THEM AND LOAD ON MILITARY TRUCKS AND JUST PLANT ON ALL OUR INTERNATIONAL BORDERSTHESE ARE ALMOST KEPT BY NATURE IDLE ON EARTH WE CAN USE THEM AS BARRIERS TO CHINESE TANKS PAKISTAN TANKS IN WARI AM STAYING IN MAHARASHTRA -I HAVE SEN IN SAHYADRIS ALL BLACK BASALT FOUND IN SAHYADRIS ARE SO TOUGH TO BREAK BY ANY SHELLING PLANT THEM ON OUR INTERNATIONAL BORDERSIF GOVERNMENT START ON THIS PROJECT IT WILL COST VERY FEW LACKS BUT SAVE LIFE OF 100 MILLION INDIAN AS IT WORKS AS OUR NATURAL SHIELDALL INDIAN POST YOUR COMMENTS ON IT MAKE DEMONSTRATION FOR THIS THIS IS FOR YOUR COUNTRYREPLY ON THIS SUGGESTIONS

TO govT iNDIA - ON ARUNACHAL; by Pankaj on 10 Feb 2008

THIS IS A MESSAGE TO INDIAN GOVERNMENTWHY R U SLEEPING LIKE OUR PAST MAHARAJAS WHEN PAKISTAN, CHINA IS OPENLY SAYING THAT INDIAN TERRITORY IS PART OFTHEMWHY , THE GOVERNMENT GUYS ARE SO BUSY IN EATING MONEY AND BLOOD OF INDIAN THAT THEY DONT HAVE TIME TO PROTECT OUR BORDERSEVENTHOUGH HIMALAYAS.DESERTS ARE NATURAL BARRIERS STILL CHINA HAD AGRESS US PAKISTAN WILL MAKE WORLD RECORDS IN ATTACKWE DONT HAVE OUR STATUS AS POWERFUL NATION , WE DONT HAVE THAT ARMY, DANGEROUS WEAPON TO DEFEND USCHINA OPENLY SAYS ARUNACHAL IS THEIRS IT IS INDICATION THAT THEY ARE PLANING TO ATTACK INDIA AND SPREAD ARMY IN INDIASTART PLANTING NUCLEAR WEAPON ON OUR 1500 KM HIMALAYAN BORDER AND CHALLENGE CHINA IF THEY DARE WE WILL JUST HAVE DANGEROUS WAR WITH CHINAOUR SOLDIERS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND THEY ARE USED TO SITUATION LIKE KASHMIR BEAR IN MIND CHINA OPENLY WANT ARUNACHAL THEN WHOLE NORTH EAST SIKKIMPAKISTAN WANT KASHMIRWAKEUP ALL WE NEED TO BE BOMB FRIENDLY NATION OR DIE LIKE OUR ANCESTORSREMEMBER BECAUSE OF OUR MAHARAJAS WERE LASY WEHAD TO BE UNDER SLAVERY OF MUGHALS ,BRITISH FOR 1000 YEARS ALL INDIANS YOU WANT TO BE GULAM OF CHINA

Arunachal is ours by Azhakamkumarath Vinodkumar on 09 Feb 2008

Readers wish to know the opinion of CPM - PB in this issue . Where do they stand ?

Arunachal Predsh. by PALANIYANDY on 09 Feb 2008

China should understand that Arunachal Predesh is not Tibet to steal. It is part of India.so china should understand that india is not in the year of 1956.todays India will stop any agression of china if it attempts to steal our territory.palani

Arunachal Indian territory by Praful Daptardar on 09 Feb 2008

There is not doubt about that Arunachal belongs to India. It has 150 years of history behind. We should hit back at China in no uncertain terms that they should not interfere in India's internal affairs. This is not Taiwan an isolated island where China claims to be it's territory. Chins's colonialism is well known for centuries. It is time to show off our might. 1962 days are long gone and world has changed a lot today. Political equations are far more complicated this time. China must be curbed for it's land grabbing ambitions that too in a stern warning.

Strengthen IAF,Long Range missile, Mountain Units by Srini on 09 Feb 2008

This is time to strengthen IAF, Army Mountain units, Long range

Arunachal Pradesh is our property of Bharath people by N.Venkatesh on 09 Feb 2008

If China doesnot recognize our teritoryand intergral part of our Motherland, let the defence Authorities make use of Automic Bomb and punish the invaders.

china by ping on 09 Feb 2008

Chinese commies.White racists

china by mao on 09 Feb 2008

This time Chinese must bethreatened with nukes if they cross the border.Show backbone mr.mouse singh.Tell Jinbao not to visit Tibet as it is Indian state.

china by wen jinbao on 09 Feb 2008

Tibet is indian stateBeijing is also ourschina US pak=thuggery

the UNUCHES by babubhai on 09 Feb 2008

sir,this gang of unuchsof UPA... clamouring now ????chinese intentions were made known ,when its beady eyed ambassador purred a long time ago...for the politicalconvinience, UPA stalled and now it is going to be just like Nehru's Kashmir. just watch.....

arunachal - and the current indian government by babubhai on 09 Feb 2008

sir,this gang of unuchsof UPA... clamouring now ????chinese intentions were made known ,when its beady eyed ambassador purred a long time ago...for the politicalconvinience, UPA stalled and now it is going to be just like Nehru's Kashmir. just watch.....

Chak de... by Hemant on 09 Feb 2008

I know on the surface it doesn't sound logical or even rational... but I would really like India to make a clear statement of intent over the Aksai Chin issue. Start going on national television and making statements about Indian ownership of Aksai Chin. We can then start by growing some balls... and make incursions there! Amass the Indian army just like we did with Pakistan and show the Chinese this is not 1962 and we are not a young nation with a stupid prime minister (although this task will be difficult... especially with a pussy as the PM of India). But anyway, how about doing what Pakistan does best and gets away with it too... just tell the Chinese we will bomb the crap out of them (with nukes) if they make an erroneous move!! All they have been doing is developing their economy by keeping India unsteady so they can have an advantage over India in case of a war, skirmish, whatever you want to call it. Now that India is becoming increasingly competitive, they are getting nervous and returning to old tactics. This is good news for India. It means we have rattled their cage. Their soldiers are inept. They won the last time because our PM was a moron. This time atleast because of the pressure from media and the internet our pussy PM will have to pretend to be a man. Our soldiers are top notch anyway. We can do this. Rid ourselves of the shame that Jawaharlal Nehru bestowed upon us. I guess Mountbatten's wife possibly told him to drop the ball during that war!

A firm response! by Ram Gopal on 09 Feb 2008

At last a firm response from a Congress led government we can expect to act with courage - a secular one. had it been the fundamentalist regime in place they would have bent over backwards to please China - after all their courage only lies in bullying their own citizens with 'state patronage'. No state patronage - no more courage. In fact the last dispensation was so cowardly that they disbanded and downgraded the secuirty and intelligence gathering agency pertaining to that part of the world.

ARUNACHAL by atulk on 09 Feb 2008

We must constantly encourage the Tibet cause to trouble China ,instead we have a spineless government which prevents its officials from attending Tibet functions organised in india.China has always played a double game and indulged in double speak.If they feel bad that the PM has visited AP after the China visit why did they choose to invade Vietnam when Vajpayee was visiting China ?Also they have made no effort to resolve and demarcate the border till date and have kept the issue festering.We must mantain a balanced posture in the East and mantain adeqauate force levels in East as well.Defence and development are the only sure ways of containing China. statements about Arunachal must be backed up by consistent foreign policy and not appeasement and servile/ wishful thinking.

China and Arunachal by megh on 09 Feb 2008

If we let China to have its way, they would claim the whole of india as theirs. China has border disputes with all its neighbors because of their greed. They believe anyone with oriental eyes is a chinese. i'm sure Karats and Yechuris would now insist that India handover AP to China! Indian commies like Yechuri and Karat's shoud be kicked out off india and thrown into Beijing.

Still waiting for the Left to assert that AP is Indian territory!! by Hemant on 09 Feb 2008

Cool! Let us take this a step further. How about taking Yechuri and Karat and strapping them with Parachutes (we are still a gentle people) and then asking the Air Force to make a quick sortie over China (Tibet would be appropriate) and dumping these idiots there? I think it will be cool. We will do two good things. We will rid India of two idiots and we will send two people, akin to termite into China. They will eat China from within. They have almost destroyed India with help from the Congress.

Arunachal is ours, PM can go there: India to China by meher on 09 Feb 2008

It seems that China is coming back to its old tactics which it had adopted during Jawahar Lal Nehru's time which led to military confrontation in 1962.India should be not only careful but strict while dealing with China.Now the situation is vastly different.India is much better prepared to deal with such situations.

ARUNACHAL by EDAYIL ITTYCHERIA ABRAHAM REV FR on 09 Feb 2008

I think we the people of India must organize better than today to deal with any higher tasks of the future. I think we need to start University Degrees in patriotism. I think China and Pakistan are taking advantages on our peacefull approaches.

China is nothing... by Hemant on 09 Feb 2008

Alright! Shame on all the people who voted for Congress. You dirt bags are destroying India. While BJP was in power, you did not hear a word from China on Arunachal Pradesh. We need BJP back in power as soon as possible. You know China is just a bully. It can't control Taiwan. It won the previous engagement with India because we had the Congress in power than. Congress has always been a dirt bag party. Threaten China openly once and let them know we mean business. If there is a war, don't let it be a border skirmish. Use the MAD policy. Mutually Assured Destruction. How much is China willing to lose, to get Arunachal Pradesh? Manmohan is a spine less man and so is his coterie of Italian feet licking cabinet (that includes Sharad Pawar, we haven't forgotten this man). If I was the Prime Minister, I would ask China to bring it on. What use is the 'Nuclear Power' tag if you are not willing to use it? China is nothing. Get it right. They do this stuff because they feel threatened by us... which means they are afraid. They are a make pretend communist nation. They can't even hold good to their national ideology, they are doing trade with the West, their is inappropriate distribution of wealth in China, people in Tibet are disenfranchised, so how is China a communist country again?! This is happening because the Left is supporting the Congress. I am amazed some morons still vote for the Left. Just see the nonsense going on in West Bengal. They are killing people who are their allies.

History by Kiran on 09 Feb 2008

Nehru gave part of J and K (Azad Kashmir) to get muslim votes now, left will give Arunachal Pradesh to China. So many Jawans lost life for nothing in three Pakistan wars.

china by abhijit on 09 Feb 2008

china is also ours , one day we will annexe china too. I like to become as big as russia

TRUTH MUST BE FOUND, NOT PRESUMED by BantaSingh on 09 Feb 2008

ASK CHINESE WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING LIKE THIS, AND WHAT IS THAT THEY WANT. ASK THEM BLUNTLY FACE TO FACE, AND ONLY THAT WILL RESOLVE THE ISSUE.

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