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Congress MP urges govt to ensure safe return of five youth from Arunachal Pradesh, strengthen security along border

Congress MP urges govt to ensure safe return of five youth from Arunachal Pradesh, strengthen security along border
GUWAHATI: Congress MP and deputy leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi has written to defence minister Rajnath Singh and urged the government to take immediate steps to ensure the safe return of the five youth of Arunachal Pradesh and to strengthen security along the border region.
“I am writing to you to register my grave concern regarding the condition of the five young men from Arunachal Pradesh that have gone missing from the Upper Subansiri district during a hunting exercise.
Members of the family have made statements alleging that they have been abducted, wherein they hold the Chinese People’s Liberation Army as the party responsible for the said abduction. In light of rising aggression by the Chinese in the Ladakh region, such an action in the north east is alarming and must be dealt with more sternly,” Gogoi wrote in his letter to the defence minister.
He added, “As per reports, the Indian Army at present is merely waiting for a response from its Chinese counterparts at the respective border point. Besides these statements, the State Government has divulged no further information or elucidated any further steps that would be taken in this regard.”
Gogoi wrote that the people of Arunachal Pradesh have already expressed their displeasure at the State’s level of inaction and apathy in the situation. “They have raised the question; why has the Government failed to take into account the numerous aggressions and incursions undertaken by the PLA along the McMahon line in Arunachal Pradesh?” he stated.
“I urge the Government to look into this matter and ensure that steps are taken immediately to ensure the safe return of these 5 youth and to strengthen security along the border region,” he stated.
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Prabin Kalita

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.

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