Beijing: China on Monday objected to house minister Amit Shah’s ongoing go to to Arunachal Pradesh, saying it violated Beijing’s territorial sovereignty and never “conducive” to peace and tranquiliity alongside the border.

Beijing claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet, a part of the Tibet Autonomous Area, and objects to official visits to the state.

China’s declare has been repeatedly dismissed by New Delhi which says the northeastern state is an integral a part of India.

Shah’s go to to the distant state – together with to the strategic Kibithoo village close to the Line of Precise Management (LAC) – comes within the backdrop of Beijing “standardising” names of 11 locations together with villages and mountain peaks within the state final week.

Responding to Shah’s go to, Chinese language overseas ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin stated: “Zangnan (South Tibet in Chinese language) is China’s territory”.

“The Indian official’s go to to Zangnan violates China’s territorial sovereignty, and isn’t conducive to the peace and tranquility of the border state of affairs,” Wang stated.

China had strongly protested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Arunachal Pradesh in February 2018, and President Ram Nath Kovind’s go to to the state in November, 2017

“The Chinese language authorities has by no means recognised the so-called Arunachal Pradesh and is firmly against the Indian chief’s go to to the disputed space,” then spokesperson Geng Shuang was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua information company.

India and China have been locked in a standoff in Ladakh sector approaching three years, since early Could 2020, sending bilateral ties plummeting to their worst in a long time.

Each side have deployed 1000’s of troops and heavy armament alongside the LAC.

A lethal conflict at Galwan Valley in June 2020 left 20 Indian troopers and not less than 4 Chinese language troops lifeless – the primary fatalities alongside the LAC since 1975.

India has been engaged on bettering infrastructure alongside the disputed border with China, which has over the a long time vastly developed its villages close to the boundary with India.

Throughout his go to Shah will launch the ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’ (VVP)’, a central authorities scheme to develop villages alongside the LAC in a complete method. He’s additionally anticipated to work together with ITBP personnel.

India final week rejected the renaming by China of locations in Arunachal Pradesh with exterior affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi saying in an announcement: “We have now seen such studies. This isn’t the primary time China has made such an try. We reject this outright.”

It was the third time that China had unilaterally renamed locations in Arunachal Pradesh, having accomplished it in April, 2017, and in December 2021.

In 2017, the identify adjustments have been carried out on April 13, a day after Tibetan religious chief Dalai Lama left Arunachal Pradesh following a high-profile nine-day excessive go to. Beijing calls the Dalai Lama a splittist, and says he needs to create an impartial nation of Tibet.