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“The era is gone when anyone could encroach on our lands. Now, not even land equal to ‘sui ki noke’ (inch of land) can be encroached,” thundered India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday as he stood on stage in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kibithoo and launched the government’s ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’. The timing of the home minister’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh is of significance; his two-day visit to the northeastern state comes days after Beijing announced Chinese names for 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh which the Dragon claims as the “southern part of Tibet”. Kibithoo, located in Arunachal Pradesh, is the...
