Guwahati: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has denied reports of China entering Arunachal Pradesh, reaffirming India’s strong patrolling efforts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Addressing an event in New Delhi on Saturday, the Union Minister said, “China entered the border in 1959! What are you talking about?”
He said, “In Arunachal Pradesh, we are very robust in our patrolling of the LAC. And I can tell you that you know, in terms of our patrolling in the LAC, there’s has been no major change in the last five-ten years or maybe even longer.”
China has several times in the past claimed Arunachal Pradesh as its part.
In April this year, China released a list of 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh in a bid to assert its claim over India’s northeastern state.
India had rejected such renaming of places by China, stating that assigning invented names will “not alter the reality that the state will always be an integral and inalienable part of India.
“In every country, in politics, there are changes. Sometimes, the changes are smooth, sometimes the changes are disruptive. But to me, what foreign policy should do is to plan for this change. We need to build such a strong relationship that even if there are political changes, the relationship should be big enough, deep enough, important enough for it to absorb those changes,” Jaishankar said.
