Amidst India-China disagreements in recent times, a patriotic forum of northeast India strongly endorsed the stand of Bhutan government crying foul against the Communist Chinese regime in Beijing for its illegitimate activities in Sikkim’s Doklam locality. The Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), in a recent statement, opined that China simply preferred not to recognize Bhutan’s sovereignty.
The Himalayan nation’s Ambassador to India, Vetsop Namgyel has recently commented that the ongoing construction of a road in the disputed Doklam area (also known as Donglang nearing Sikkim) was a clear ‘violation’ of an agreement between Bhutan and China. The Bhutanese government in Thimphu had asked Beijing to stop the construction that is adjacent to their military camps.
“Doklam is a disputed territory and Bhutan has a written agreement with China that pending the final resolution of the boundary issue, peace and tranquillity should be maintained in the area,” said Ambassador Namgyel in New Delhi.
Meanwhile, the Chinese administration blocked the Indian pilgrims on way to Kailash-Mansarover of Tibet through Nathu La pass in Sikkim, which has been strongly condemned by the PPFA. The forum argued that Communist China had recently made a number of irresponsible comments against India, ‘showing Beijing’s frustration’ as its great neighbor lately starts receiving global attentions.
The PPFA ridiculed China’s recent comments that India should take a lesson from 1962 war, rather it reminded the Beijing administration about their sudden retreat from the McMahon Line after declaring a midnight unilateral ceasefire on 21 November ’62 following USA’s nuclear threats.
The forum also urges the Union government in New Delhi to rethink its foreign policy towards Tibet and eventually support the Tibetan movement directly to chase away Communist China’s imperialist forces from the land of Dalai Lama.
“A free Tibet will be friendlier to India and it would bring a true sense of security to its grand Himalayan border. Moreover an independent Tibet will also help India to mitigate various environmental disasters looming large over the country,” added the PPFA statement endorsed by Rupam Barua, Pramod Kalita, Jagadindra Raichoudhury, Soumyadeep Datta, Nani Gopal Mahanta, Biman Chandra Hazarika, Ujjal Saikia etc.
Also supported by Manju Borah, Nayan Prasad, Jahnabi Goswami, Jyotisman Das, Manjira Chowdhury etc, the statement asserted that the largest democracy in the globe had nothing to learn from a single party dictatorship like China’s present regime. Contrary to it, the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre mastermind can learn the essence of freedom of expression, dignity to human rights and pluralism from the land of Buddha and Gandhi.
