EAM Jaishankar denies Chinese incursion reports in Arunachal

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has rubbished reports of China entering Arunachal Pradesh.

Jaishankar said this while addressing an interactive session at an event in New Delhi on Saturday.
Minister Jaishankar said, “China entered the border in 1959! What are you talking about?”

“What happens is, 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.”

For last several decades, China has been claiming Arunachal Pradesh as its part and renamed names of various places of the India’s frontier state.

In April, China had 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.”