{"id":119706,"date":"2017-03-13T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=49751"},"modified":"2017-03-13T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:29:38","slug":"govt-no-say-dalai-lamas-travel-within-india-delhi-tells-beijing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119706","title":{"rendered":"Govt has no say in Dalai Lama&#8217;s travel within India: Delhi tells Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday said it has no say in the Dalai Lama\u2019s travel within the country, and no political meaning should be read into it. China had earlier taken strong objection to the Tibetan spiritual leader visiting Arunanchal Pradesh, over which it has territorial contestation with India. India considers Arunanchal Pradesh as an integral part of India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dalai Lama is a revered religious figure who is treated as such by the government and people of India,\u201d external affairs ministry spokesperson Gopal Banglay said. He said the government has no \u201csay\u201d in Dalai Lama\u2019s travel \u201cwithin India and no political meaning should be attached to them as such\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>China said it was \u201cgravely concerned over information that India granted permission to the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh,\u201d its foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, said last week.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that an invitation to the spiritual leader to visit Arunachal Pradesh will cause serious damage to Sino-Indian ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia is fully aware of the seriousness of the Dalai Lama issue and the sensitivity of the China-India border question. Under such a background, if India invites the Dalai Lama to visit the mentioned territory, it will cause serious damage to peace and stability of the border region and China-India relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday said it has no say in the Dalai Lama\u2019s travel within the country, and no political meaning should be read into it. China had earlier taken strong objection to the Tibetan spiritual leader visiting Arunanchal Pradesh, over which it has territorial contestation with India. India considers Arunanchal Pradesh as an integral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}