05-29-2007, 12:31 AM
Kumarji,
Here goes spine and back in drain.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Go<b>vt looks the other way as China ups ante on Arunachal </b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Despite visa denial, joint exercises on schedule
Despite China making outrageous territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi has decided to continue with increased military cooperation with Beijing.
Even after being forced to scrap the mid-career training scheme for 107 IAS officials after <b>Beijing denied visa to C Ropianga, an IAS official from Arunachal Pradesh, India has agreed to conduct joint military exercises, and exchange high-level multi-disciplinary defence delegations with China</b>.Â
The details of joint military exercises were worked out during the recent visit of Army chief General JJ Singh to China and his deliberations with the chairman of the chiefs of staff committee in the Communist state. General Singh's week-long visit ended on Monday.
<b>As the UPA Government refuses to adopt an aggressive posture vis-Ã -vis Arunachal Pradesh, the main opposition BJP is meeting on May 30 to chalk out its future course of action.</b>
"I raised the issue with LK Advani and Jaswant Singh on Monday and they agreed to have a detailed meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation arising out of the Centre's lacklustre approach to Arunachal.<b> The denial of visa to an IAS official from the State smacks of China's evil designs," Kiren Rijiju, BJP MP from the State, said.</b>
According to Rijiju, the meeting is likely to be attended by party president Rajnath Singh as well. "A few more senior leaders could attend the meeting," Rijiju said. Rijiju and Tapir Gao, the BJP's two MPs, have been consistently mobilising public and political opinion to save Arunachal Pradesh.
"The UPA Government's response to the China's claim is reminiscent of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's messing up the whole boundary dispute after the 1962 war. The Government appears to be committing the mistake, which Nehru did then by surrendering a major chunk of Indian territory to China. India must show the guts to give a befitting reply to China on the issue of Arunachal," Rijiju said.
Even Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Kondu on Monday urged the Centre to take up the visa issue with China at an appropriate level. "It is quite unfortunate that China refuses to accept the reality that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India," Khandu said.
He contended that the visa denial implied China's insistence that Arunachal Pradesh was its territory. "One would be naive to ignore the inherent and latent message in China's refusal.... That they refuse to accept Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India," he said.
Chief Minister Kondu also asked the Centre to 'take up the issue in right earnest so that the issue gets clarified. This would remove the prevailing doubts about the real intention of China by not issuing visas to Arunachalis."
<b>The BJP has already demanded to send a joint Parliamentary delegation to Arunachal Pradesh to assess the situation at the ground level in the wake of Chinese continuous intrusion into the territory of India. "We will explore the possibilities of sending our own delegation in Wednesday meeting as well," Rijiju said</b>.
The two MPs claim that China is approximately in illegal possession of over 2000 square kilometer of Indian territory in the State. "China has occupied Indian territory in Samdrong Chu Valley and the helipad in Tawang district and the occupation of many spots like Asapila and Lungar Camps in the State have threatened the security of the nation. China is coming forward in these areas steadily," he added.
"As a result, China will keep denying visas to the people of Arunachal Pradesh, as it reaffirms their claim on the Indian State," he said.
Even in April this year, India had to drop four people from Arunachal from an official delegation that visited China later. In all, a delegation of 48 people were to visit China at an invitation sent on April 2 by the vice-director general of the Science and Technology Bureau in Weifang, Shandong province.
The team had four members from Arunachal Pradesh. They were Lohit legislator CP Namchoom, Tajom Taloh and Tape Banga, both IAS officials, and Tasso Butung. New Delhi agreed to China's revised list of April 13.
China's recent hawkish attitude towards Arunachal Pradesh in the recent time first surfaced on the eve of President Hu Jintao's visit, when Chinese envoy San Yaxi hit the headlines by stating that not only Tawang, but the whole of Arunachal was a part of Chinese territory. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Here goes spine and back in drain.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Go<b>vt looks the other way as China ups ante on Arunachal </b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Despite visa denial, joint exercises on schedule
Despite China making outrageous territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi has decided to continue with increased military cooperation with Beijing.
Even after being forced to scrap the mid-career training scheme for 107 IAS officials after <b>Beijing denied visa to C Ropianga, an IAS official from Arunachal Pradesh, India has agreed to conduct joint military exercises, and exchange high-level multi-disciplinary defence delegations with China</b>.Â
The details of joint military exercises were worked out during the recent visit of Army chief General JJ Singh to China and his deliberations with the chairman of the chiefs of staff committee in the Communist state. General Singh's week-long visit ended on Monday.
<b>As the UPA Government refuses to adopt an aggressive posture vis-Ã -vis Arunachal Pradesh, the main opposition BJP is meeting on May 30 to chalk out its future course of action.</b>
"I raised the issue with LK Advani and Jaswant Singh on Monday and they agreed to have a detailed meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation arising out of the Centre's lacklustre approach to Arunachal.<b> The denial of visa to an IAS official from the State smacks of China's evil designs," Kiren Rijiju, BJP MP from the State, said.</b>
According to Rijiju, the meeting is likely to be attended by party president Rajnath Singh as well. "A few more senior leaders could attend the meeting," Rijiju said. Rijiju and Tapir Gao, the BJP's two MPs, have been consistently mobilising public and political opinion to save Arunachal Pradesh.
"The UPA Government's response to the China's claim is reminiscent of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's messing up the whole boundary dispute after the 1962 war. The Government appears to be committing the mistake, which Nehru did then by surrendering a major chunk of Indian territory to China. India must show the guts to give a befitting reply to China on the issue of Arunachal," Rijiju said.
Even Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Kondu on Monday urged the Centre to take up the visa issue with China at an appropriate level. "It is quite unfortunate that China refuses to accept the reality that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India," Khandu said.
He contended that the visa denial implied China's insistence that Arunachal Pradesh was its territory. "One would be naive to ignore the inherent and latent message in China's refusal.... That they refuse to accept Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India," he said.
Chief Minister Kondu also asked the Centre to 'take up the issue in right earnest so that the issue gets clarified. This would remove the prevailing doubts about the real intention of China by not issuing visas to Arunachalis."
<b>The BJP has already demanded to send a joint Parliamentary delegation to Arunachal Pradesh to assess the situation at the ground level in the wake of Chinese continuous intrusion into the territory of India. "We will explore the possibilities of sending our own delegation in Wednesday meeting as well," Rijiju said</b>.
The two MPs claim that China is approximately in illegal possession of over 2000 square kilometer of Indian territory in the State. "China has occupied Indian territory in Samdrong Chu Valley and the helipad in Tawang district and the occupation of many spots like Asapila and Lungar Camps in the State have threatened the security of the nation. China is coming forward in these areas steadily," he added.
"As a result, China will keep denying visas to the people of Arunachal Pradesh, as it reaffirms their claim on the Indian State," he said.
Even in April this year, India had to drop four people from Arunachal from an official delegation that visited China later. In all, a delegation of 48 people were to visit China at an invitation sent on April 2 by the vice-director general of the Science and Technology Bureau in Weifang, Shandong province.
The team had four members from Arunachal Pradesh. They were Lohit legislator CP Namchoom, Tajom Taloh and Tape Banga, both IAS officials, and Tasso Butung. New Delhi agreed to China's revised list of April 13.
China's recent hawkish attitude towards Arunachal Pradesh in the recent time first surfaced on the eve of President Hu Jintao's visit, when Chinese envoy San Yaxi hit the headlines by stating that not only Tawang, but the whole of Arunachal was a part of Chinese territory. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->