Its not only his five marriages that made Gegong Apang a colourful personality in Arunachal Pradesh politics. His political acumen and strong manoeuvring skills also made him the longest-serving chief minister of the picturesque, sparsely-populated hilly state. Apang is currently in police custody in connection with a Rs 1,000-crore public distribution system scam.
China is once again in the news. Having overtaken Japan as the worlds second-largest economy, it is flexing muscles. It chose to deny entry to an Indian army officer scheduled to participate in a bilateral dialogue because of his posting in Jammu and Kashmir, has reportedly taken control of parts of the state from Pakistan, and has seized maps of India from the Indian Pavillion at the Shanghai Expo because they show Arunachal Pradesh as part of India. There is method in Chinas madness. Keeping India off balance is an old Chinese game. Playing with Indias highly emotional media and political class with its blow hot, blow cold tease is another. Winning friends in Indias neighbourhood is a third. But to place Chinas latest acts of assertiveness in perspective, one must also draw attention to internal divisions within China as to how it should deal with the world, with Asia and with India.
Guwahati/Dibrugarh, Aug. 28: The All Assam Students' Union and Asam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad today temporarily lifted the economic blockade in Assam on two routes to neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, as the ruling Congress accused NSCN I-M of triggering the flare-up in Charaipung to merge Assam's villages with the outfit's proposed greater Nagalim.
Indian govt officials said that the China's Public Security Bureau said they were taking the maps away because China objects to showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of Indian territory. Beijing claims Arunachal and does not recognize the frontier as a border.
Itanagar, Aug. 25: Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang today termed his arrest on corruption charges a "blessing in disguise", musing on the times he found solace in cultivation to escape from political reverses.
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