ITANAGAR, Aug 12: Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has criticized the recent statement of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama when he called former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru as “self-centred” and charged Nehru for being responsible for partition of the country. He reportedly made the comments at a function in Goa Institute of Management.

 

Although Dalai Lama expressed regret over his controversial comment, APCC is extremely thwarted over name calling of the Indian leader, who it says sweated most to keep them (Tibetans) safe from Chinese aggression. 

 

Today, India is home for more than one lakh Tibetans living in 37 settlements and 70 scattered communities which spread across different states of India. Dalai Lama may have forgotten the sixty long years of struggle of India to support Tibetan polity, its settlements, its enterprises and its religio-political structure not only to flourish but made to transform and develop to be active part of the modern world. India provided a beam of light and hope to Tibetans remaining in Chinese-dominated Tibet and in the neighbouring Chinese Provinces politically cut off from the Tibetan heart land. All these happened only because India has great leaders like Gandhi and Nehru who took the responsibility of social burden to shelter thousands of persecuted Tibetans since 1959, APCC said.

 

Further, APCC stated that Dalai Lama should know a spiritual leader like him is shouldering great expectation, hope and trust of millions on record and the same are watching his contribution towards mankind. So, in such circumstance Dalai Lama should abstain from imparting partial and controversial information to the students who are the torch bearers of the nation.

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