Beijing has recently came out with a map renaming 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh in Chinese, the Indian government has condemned as “illegally standardized geographical names”. Following the argument, Assam Chief Minister wants tit for tat exercise to which he said that India should rename 60 places in the Tibetan area of China.
Sarma said, “My request to the Government of India is that we should give 60 geographical names for the Tibetan area of China. It should be always tit for tat but I do not want to comment because it is a policy decision of the Government of India, but if they name 30, we should name 60.”
On the other hand, Pema Khandu said, “Being a proud citizen of Bharat and a native of Arunachal Pradesh, I strongly condemn this act of naming places within Arunachal Pradesh which has been an inalienable integral part of India. Proud citizens and patriots of Arunachal Pradesh are rejecting such antics.”