‘Was, Is, Will Always Be Integral Part Of…’: India Dismisses China’s ‘Absurd Claims’ Over Arunachal Pradesh

Dismissing the “absurd claims” made by China over the territory of Arunachal Pradesh, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday asserted that the state “was, is and can at all times be” an integral and inalienable a part of India. This response follows the latest Chinese language Defence Ministry assertion, calling Arunachal Pradesh an “inherent a part of China’s territory”.

Chinese language army’s feedback got here within the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the state earlier this month. “We have now famous the feedback made by the spokesperson of the Chinese language Defence Ministry advancing absurd claims over the territory of the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh,” MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated in a press release.

‘Inalienable a part of India’

The MEA assertion stated that it was in response to media queries on feedback made by the spokesperson of the Chinese language Defence Ministry relating to Arunachal Pradesh. “Repeating baseless arguments on this regard doesn’t lend such claims any validity. Arunachal Pradesh was, is and can at all times be an integral and inalienable a part of India. Its folks will proceed to profit from our growth programmes and infrastructure initiatives,” he stated.

Chinese language Defence Ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang had stated that the southern a part of Xizang (the Chinese language identify for Tibet) is an inherent a part of China’s territory, and Beijing ”by no means acknowledges and firmly opposes” the “so-called Arunachal Pradesh illegally established by India”, official media in Beijing had reported.

India has repeatedly rejected China’s territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh, asserting that the state is an integral a part of the nation. New Delhi has additionally dismissed Beijing’s transfer to assign “invented” names to the world, saying it didn’t alter the truth. Earlier this month, PM Modi addressed the Viksit Bharat Viksit North East Program in Itanagar. Modi laid the inspiration stone for a number of growth initiatives value about Rs 55,600 crores in Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh.