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India on Tuesday the 11th of April 2023 slammed China for objecting to Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, saying the north-eastern state is an integral and inalienable part of India and Beijing’s comments will not change the reality.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that Indian leaders routinely travel to Arunachal Pradesh as they do to any other part of India.
The statement read:
“We completely reject the comments made by the Chinese Official Spokesperson. Indian leaders routinely travel to the state of Arunachal Pradesh as they do to any other state of India.
“Arunachal Pradesh was, is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India. Objecting to such visits does not stand to reason and will not change the above reality.”
It may be recalled that China on Monday termed the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Arunachal Pradesh as violating Beijing’s territorial sovereignty and not conducive to peace and tranquility in the border areas.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, responding to a question on Amit Shah’s visit, said: “Zangnan (or South Tibet as Beijing refers to Arunachal Pradesh) is part of China’s territory.

On Monday Amit Shah had launched the ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’ (VVP) at Kibithoo – a border village in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China.
Shah also inaugurated nine micro hydel projects of the Arunachal Government and 14 infrastructure projects of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) worth Rs 120 crore.