No visible encroachment by China since 1962: Arunachal Pradesh BJP team 

The Arunachal Pradesh stretch of the LAC separating India from the Tibetan region controlled by China is 1,129 km. Beijing disputes the border, claiming some 90,000 sq. km of Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. 

GUWAHATI

There has been no visible encroachment of land in Arunachal Pradesh by Chinese troops or civilians since 1962, a Bharatiya Janata Party team has found after a four-month tour covering all the villages and defence outposts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). 

The Arunachal Pradesh stretch of the LAC separating India from the Tibetan region controlled by China is 1,129 km. Beijing disputes the border, claiming some 90,000 sq. km of Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. 

An 11-member team of the State BJP unit, led by its vice-president Tarh Tarak undertook the ‘Sarhad Yatra’ (border tour) from December 22 to April 24. Local BJP leaders joined each leg of the tour that began from the south-eastern Anjaw district and ended in the north-western Tawang district. 

“During our border tour, we interacted with the personnel of the Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along the LAC as well as the residents of the border villages. We came to know that the situation on the border is normal and peaceful,” Mr Tarak said. 

“There is no visible encroachment of our State’s land by the members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army who sometimes enter our territory by mistake during long-range patrols along the LAC. Our Indian soldiers always challenge them in such cases,” he said. 

These “low-impact incursions” happen because the border between the two Asian countries is not clearly defined, he added.