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Govt refusing foreign media visit to Arunachal to cover Dalai Lama trip

New Delhi: The Central Government has reportedly refused permission to foreign media to travel to Arunachal Pradesh to cover the proposed visit of the Dalai Lama. The Union Government on Thursday revoked its earlier permission given to four foreign correspondents, besides cancelling fresh permits. Earlier ....Read more

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goenkaBy: vijay kumar | Saturday , 7 Nov '09 21:09:06 PM Reply | Forward Its most regreting that india goverment is neglecting the interest of north eastern states of india at the cost of the integrity and unity of the country.In 1962 india was defeted by china whom than govt. of india was treating as Big brother our late priminister Pt Nehru was so shocked and felt defeted that he had to declear in a radio broad cast that ASSAM IS IN DANGER WHICH resulted in exqueds of a large number of citizens to other states of India.China ius again playing a dirty game.And this time we the indians can teach it a good lesson by simply stop buying chiness products.Also we the patriot citizens of this great country should voluntarily not buy any made in china product.In my openion this will be a enough reply for CHINA .

This is the biggest mistake GOI is doingBy: L.C.Bilandani | Saturday , 7 Nov '09 9:53:11 AM Reply | Forward Not allowing foriegn media to cover Dalai Lama trip is the biggest mistake of our govt.It only goes on to show that the govt has not changed its mindset from the British rule yet.Britishers only put restrictions on Indians to visit other parts of country and our govt. has followed the same tradition as with civil servants.They dont have thier own mindset and will traverse the same path as Britishers.It is not only in Arunachal Pradesh the Indian nationals are restricted. A person who is non resident of Kashmir cannot buy property in Kashmir.Any logic? No. Similarly we Indians cannot visit Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh although these are our own states.Going to border may be a sensitive matter but what prevents govt in allowing visit to non border areas.Another funny thing,we cannot buy agriculture land though being Indian national, but have to prove his/her credentials to prove that he belonged to an agriculturist family.Is this not absurd.May God bless politicians who never think.

Shame!By: BP | Saturday , 7 Nov '09 6:18:52 AM Reply | Forward What a shame! Is Arunachal part of India or not? If so, why are our cowardly leaders preventing media from covering Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal pradesh? By doing so, aren't we sending the wrong signal to the chinese commies that would encourage them to get even bolder with their aggressive designs? Why are we being week-kneed and pandering to chinese ego?

India under the Congress is weak and has undermined Indian sovereigntyBy: S.Balakrishnan | Saturday , 7 Nov '09 2:24:11 AM Reply | Forward IF the Indian Government believes itself that it will keep Arunachal Pradesh as an Indian territory as the people of Arunachal Pradesh wants it to do then there is no reason for them to deny permits to anyone from visiting the state. I fear that the Indian Government will ultimately give away Arunachal Pradesh like it did our rights in Tibet on empty promise of respecting the autonomy of Tibetans. The Congress Government is weak when it comes to dealing with China or other outside countries but strong in suppressing opposition inside India and prevent Indians from visiting parts of India. I am afraid of India under these people who have managed to keep India as an underdog all these years when China leapfrogged over us despite all the advantage we had as a democracy. Now China is the supplier of every essential things in the west and is indispensable. China can easily take over Arunachal Pradesh and demand that the US acknoledge it as it will withdraw its dollar reserves.

Same as Kargil BlunderBy: Rohit | Friday , 6 Nov '09 22:33:55 PM Reply | Forward If the Kargil war was telecasted by the foreign media, it would have been much shorter and the struggle to imlicate Pakistan as a terrorist state would have been easier. All the political leaders of the world know the situation in Arunachal Pradesh, India should let foreign media have a little presense in such matters.....globaly india can assert its opinion.

The farce of “restricted area permit” need to be stopped immediately.By: Jay | Friday , 6 Nov '09 19:03:46 PM Reply | Forward If India claims Arunachal as an integral part of India, then it should treat Arunachal just like any other state. India must shed its cold-war mentality and must not alienate resident Indian citizens in Arunachal and other parts of the country from each other and strengthen doubt about Indian%u2019s legitimate right over those places among foreigners. The farce of %u201Crestricted area permit%u201D need to be stopped immediately. I was thrown out of a bus and barred from entering Arunachal despite of showing my Indian passport to the police. LEAVE ALONE CHINA OR PAKISTAN, I MYSELF HAVE A PROBLEM TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY BELONG TO MY OWN COUNTRY AND I CANNOT FREELY TRAVEL WITHIN MY OWN COUNTRY. Foreign media visit to cover Dalai Lama is a great opportunity for positive international media coverage for India.

Rohit Upmanyu born in veer bhumiBy: Rohit Upmanyu | Friday , 6 Nov '09 17:35:35 PM Reply | Forward I think we should not take the comments of Mr. Raj Thackrey because it might be the reason behind his comment that they called their army by title Dog and doesn't respect and trust anybody. so it's our duty to excuse this innocent person. Jai Hind

Another strategic blunder by bowing to Coercive Chinese diplomacyBy: Pema | Friday , 6 Nov '09 17:21:57 PM Reply | Forward By banning foreign media India is only casting doubts on its own legitimacy on Arunachal in general and Tawang in particular. Its has worked in favour of Chinese coercive diplomacy. It neutralizes all the strategic bold moves by South Block. We don't need to convince the Indians but world of our legitimacy over Tawang. Another diplomatic and strategic blunder by GOI.

This is a correct stepBy: arun kumar | Friday , 6 Nov '09 16:41:52 PM Reply | Forward No foreign country other than India has born the burnt sheltering Tibetans in India. MEA invites foreign journalist to show case India's progress and what they reproduce is a snake charmer sitting in front of Hawa Mahal in Jaipur. Their reporting so biased that they try to project India as a country of snake charmers while their impotent Governments could do nothing to the Tibetan cause except shedding some crocodile tears. Correct and right decision of Government of India.

SudhaBy: Satyabati | Friday , 6 Nov '09 15:28:40 PM Reply | Forward Raj Thackeray is not a lunatic because there has been a long surreptitious rapport between the Indian Central Govt including the army and Chinese Govt which has provided the scope to the so-called marxists in Bengal to shift the focus to the repressed and deprived people called 'maoists' while the army and corrupt officials of the central govt are covering up their nefarious stories of nuclear, chemical and biological weapon proliferation. These days the truth speakers are often called 'mad'. This is not new because Kopernicus, Galileo and Socrates had also to face the music with their discovery of the truth.

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