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A week after a group of Parliamentarians, including Union MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar, attended a regale event hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in- exile, the Chinese Embassy in Delhi has expressed “ concern” over their participation and asked them to “ refrain from furnishing support to the‘Tibetan independence’ forces Under the All-Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet, at least six MPs cutting across party lines had attended an event on December 22 at a hostel in Delhi. They included Union MoS for Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Electronics & Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP’s Maneka Gandhi and K C Ramamurthy, Congress MPs Jairam Ramesh and Manish Tewari, and BJD’s Sujeet Kumar. The Speaker of Tibetan Parliament-in- exile, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, was also present China’s surprisingly articulated letter, transferred Thursday by the Political Counsellor at its Embassy, is being seen as an tactless move by Delhi, as foreign diplomats writing to MPs in India in this manner has not happed in the recentpast.Reacting sprucely to the letter, BJD’s Kumar said “ Who’s the Political Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy to write to a Member of Parliament of India, the largest republic? How dare you shoot letters to Indian MPs? If anything, you can raise your kick through sanctioned channels. I suppose the MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) should take a stage.”
The letter comes nearly four times after the Government had asked “ elderly leaders” and “ government functionaries” to not attend the events organised by Tibetans in India, citing bilateral ties In the letter, Political Counsellor Zhou Yongsheng wrote “ I’ve noticed that you have attended an exertion held by the so- called “ Each-Party Indian Parliamentary Forum for Tibet” and interacted with some members of so called “ Tibetan Parliament in Exile”. I would like to express our concern on that.”
The Counsellor wrote “ As is known to all, the so- called‘Tibetan Government in- exile’is an out-and-out separatist political group and an illegal association fully in violation of China’s Constitution and laws. It isn’t honored by any country in the world. Tibet has been an thick part of China since ancient times, and Tibet affiliated affairs are purely China’s internal affairs that allow no foreign hindrance The letter stated that in a series of political documents, the Indian Government has recognised that the Tibet Autonomous Region is part of the home of the People’s Republic of China and reiterated that it doesn’t allow Tibetans to carry outanti-China political conditioning.
“ China forcefully opposes anyanti-China rebel conditioning conducted by “ Tibetan independence” forces in any capacity or name in any country and opposes any forms of contact by officers of any country with them,” the letter said Addressing the MPs, Zhou wrote “ You’re a elderly politician who know the China-India relations well. It’s hoped that you could understand the perceptivity of the issue and chorus from furnishing support to the “ Tibetan independence” forces, and make benefactions to China-India bilateral relations When communicated, Chandrasekhar told The Indian Express “ I was a member of the Indo-Tibetan Parliamentary forum under the chairmanship of (BJP stager) Shanta Kumarji and I was invited in the capacity. I attended the regale.”
BJD’s Kumar, who’s also convenor of the forum, said “ Tête-à-tête speaking, I do n’t consider Tibet to be a part of China. That’s separate because the Government of India’s sanctioned policy is different. But this Administrative forum on Tibet is to support the cause of Tibetan artistic and religious beliefs, and is between the people of India and the Tibetan government-in- exile. One shouldn’t read too important politics into it.”
Kumar said “ The pronounced pretensions of the Administrative forum isn’t to endorse for the independence of Tibet or anything controversial. It’s largely to make a relationship between the government-in- exile and the people of India because of the participated history, participated civilization andlinkages.because of Buddhism, because of trade between Tibet and India in the history. The idea is to make on those liaison. I suppose I’ve formerly entered four or five letters from the Embassy. I give them befitting replies, too,” he said When communicated, Congress’Jairam Ramesh verified that he has entered a letter from the Political Counsellor. “ When I was asked to speak (at the event), I said I noway go to any evening functions but I’ve made an exception because of my profound admiration for the Buddha, deep respect for the Dalai Lama and in gratefulness for the part Tibetan sources have played in the detection of India’s Buddhist heritage.”
India has had a constantly probative policy towards the expatriated leaders of Tibet. In a careful balancing act on its pledged support to Tibetans while seeking a peaceful relationship with China, India’s position has been to honor Tibet as an independent region of the People’s Republic of China. It “ continues to seek a fair, reasonable and mutually respectable result to the vexed boundary issue” with China Sixty times agone, around Tibetans, along with their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, left Lhasa after a failed insurrection against the Communist rule and arrived in India The Tibetan exile administration, called CTA, is grounded in Dharamshala where the spiritual leader also lives. Around Tibetans now live in exile, over of them in different corridor of India. Over six million Tibetans live in Tibet.
In 2018, the Centre had advised elderly ministers and functionaries to stay down from‘Thank You India’ events organised by Tibetan leaders The Indian Express had reported on an sanctioned note dated February 22, 2018, advising “ elderly leaders” and “ government functionaries” of the Centre and states to stay down from events organised by Tibetan leaders, citing “ veritably sensitive times” in bilateral relations on India and China The note was transferred by also Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale to Cabinet Secretary at the time, P K Sinha, who issued a directive two days latterly.
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