“India’s thinking is that we want to maintain good relations with all our neighbours but if someone tries to hurt India’s honour then today India has the power to respond to it,” Rajnath Singh added.
Taking on China for renaming 30 locations in Arunachal Pradesh, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday mentioned that we need to keep good relations with our neighbours but when somebody tries to harm our honour then at this time India has the ability to answer it. Addressing a public rally, Rajnath mentioned that nothing goes to occur by altering the names.
“China has changed the names of 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh and posted on its website. I want to tell my neighbour that nothing is going to happen by changing the names. If tomorrow we change the names of some provinces and some States of China, so by doing that will those areas become a part of India? Atal Bihari Vajpayee used to say that friends change in life but neighbours do not change,” he mentioned.
“India’s thinking is that we want to maintain good relations with all our neighbours but if someone tries to hurt India’s honour then today India has the power to respond to it,” Rajnath added.
Further, the Defence Minister emphasised that everybody ought to give their full help to the BJP-led NDA authorities which has pledged to make India, a ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047.
“Our Prime Minister has also pledged to make India a developed country by 2047. Viksit Bharat is not our slogan but our commitment. If today BJP-led is working to take the country forward, then it should have your full support,” Rajnath Singh mentioned.
Meanwhile, China has just lately launched an inventory of 30 locations in Arunachal Pradesh in a bid to say its declare over India’s northeastern state. India has been rejecting such renaming of locations by China. The Ministry of External Affairs firmly rejected China’s try to rename several locations in Arunachal Pradesh saying assigning invented names will “not alter the reality that the state will always be an integral and inalienable part of India”.
“China has persisted with its senseless attempts to rename places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. We firmly reject such attempts. Assigning invented names will not alter the reality that Arunachal Pradesh is, has been, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India,” External Affairs ministry official spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal mentioned in an official assertion.
According to a March 30 report in its state-run Global Times, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs launched a fourth listing of standardized geographical names in Zangnan, the title that China makes use of for Arunachal Pradesh.
According to the official web site of the ministry, 30 extra publicly used place names in the Zangnan area have been formally revealed, the Global Times report mentioned.
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