Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that India wants to maintain good relations with its neighbours but if someone tries to hurt its honour then today India has the power to respond to it.
He was addressing a public rally in Arunachal Pradesh. Criticising China’s act of renaming 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh in its language, Singh said that nothing is going to happen by changing 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 said.
China recently released a list of 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh in a bid to assert its claim over India’s northeastern state.
India has been rejecting such renaming of places by China.
The Ministry of External Affairs firmly rejected China’s attempt to rename several places 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.
(Input from ANI)
