Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said the central government's 'meek response' to China's repeated claim over Arunachal Pradesh had led to a sense of insecurity and panic among the people of the hill state.
BJP's remarks are an apparent attempt to make it an election issue in the frontier hill state that goes to polls on October 13 next.
Releasing the party's election manifesto at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi asked the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to come out with a white paper on Chinese incursions into this frontier state and have an action plan ready to tackle any eventuality along Sino-Indian border.
Modi said what India needed was a better ties, not border incursions, with China, and the BJP poll manifesto underlined the need for opening border trade route with China from Arunachal Pradesh through Bumla, Taksing, Mechukha, Gelling, Walong as soon