Arunachal City Sees Large Protest After China’s ‘Renaming’ Try
Native residents of Hawai, district headquarters of Anjaw in Arunachal Pradesh, on Thursday staged a large protest towards China’s makes an attempt to rename 27 locations within the northeastern state, which Beijing refers to as “Zangnan” or the southern a part of Tibet.
The protesters staged the agitation with the Tricolour and raised slogans towards China. In addition they burnt a poster of Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
“It is not 1962, it is 2025 and we strongly reject China’s makes an attempt to rename 27 locations in Arunachal Pradesh,” one of many protesters mentioned, referring to the Indo-China warfare in 1962. “We’re part of India and all the time stay with India. Arunachal Pradesh was by no means part of China.”
Echoing comparable sentiments, one other protester mentioned: “Their (China’s) claims are baseless. Arunachal Pradesh is an integral a part of India and we’re proud Indians.”
A 3rd protester mentioned the geographical terrain may be very powerful and it isn’t simple to acclimatise within the area. “We’re prepared for any type of eventuality and provides logistic assist to our armed forces if essential,” the protester mentioned.
India on Wednesday outrightly rejected as “useless and preposterous” China’s makes an attempt to rename some locations in Arunachal Pradesh and mentioned doing so won’t alter the “plain” actuality that the state “was, is, and can” all the time stay an integral a part of India.
New Delhi’s remarks had been in response to Beijing’s announcement on Chinese language names for 27 locations within the northeastern state, primarily 15 mountains, 4 passes, two rivers, a lake and 5 inhabited areas.
“We’ve observed that China has persevered with its useless and preposterous makes an attempt to call locations within the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned.
“According to our principled place, we reject such makes an attempt categorically. Inventive naming won’t alter the plain actuality that Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and can all the time stay an integral and inalienable a part of India,” he added.
