‘DALAI LAMA’S ARUNACHAL VISIT WILL HIT TIES WITH INDIA’

New Delhi is deliberately risking confrontation with Beijing by allowing Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit Arunachal Pradesh in the coming weeks, Chinese state media warned on Monday, adding there will be “severe consequences” in bilateral ties if the visit was allowed.

Lashing out at India, the state media comment piece said the 81-year-old was no “spiritual leader” but a separatist. The Chinese government has earlier called him “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and blamed him for inciting self-immolations in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and neighbouring provinces.

The ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) last week said Beijing was “gravely concerned” about the planned visit of the Dalai Lama to the northeastern Indian state, which it claims is disputed and part of south Tibet, in the coming weeks. It will cause “serious damage” to Sino-India ties, Geng Shuang, MFA spokesperson said at a press briefing on Friday. “China is strongly opposed to Dalai visiting disputed areas,” he said.

“China is gravely concerned over such information. China’s position on eastern section of China India border dispute is consistent and clear. The Dalaiclique has long been engaging in anti-China separatist activities and its record on the border question is not that good,” he said. The nationalistic tabloid, Global Times, picked up from where Geng had stopped last week.“The Dalai Lama is by no means a spiritual leader but a Tibetan separatist. Allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the disputed area will sour Sino-Indian relations,” the newspaper said in the comment piece.

“Insaaf to mila, izzat aur naukri kahan se aayegi? (We got justice, but how will we get back our prestige or jobs?),” asks Mohit.

He is one of the three Haryana youth discharged last week by a local court of charges of harassing two sisters on a bus about two years ago. A video of the three men being thrashed on a bus by two girls, Aarti and Pooja, on being allegedly harassed went viral and the sisters were quickly hailed as ‘Sonepat brave hearts’.

Mohit and his two friends — Kuldeep and Deepak — were briefly arrested before being let out on bail. But, though the girls’ version has been thrown out by the court and the men were vindicated, life is still not the same for Mohit or his friends.

When the alleged incident happened, Mohit was eyeing a job with Delhi Police while Kuldeep and Deepak were in the line for jobs with the Indian Army, after having already cleared the medical and physical tests. But once they were implicated in the case, they were barred from taking the written examination and their pursuits for secured jobs stopped