<p>Chief Minister Pema Khandu today said China has no business telling India what to do with regard to the Dalai Lama's movement in the country.<br /><br />"China has no business telling us what to do and what not to do (regarding the Dalai Lama's movement). It is not our next-door neighbour. India shares boundary with Tibet, not with China," he told reporters here.<br /><br />"In reality, the McMahon Line demarcates the boundary between India and Tibet," he said.<br />Khandu, who accompanied the Dalai Lama during an eight-hour-long drive from Guwahati to Bomdila yesterday, said it was a brave decision on the part of the Tibetan spiritual leader to undertake the arduous trip.<br /><br />"He wanted to reach Tawang anyhow and the weather could not deter him. Let us hope that his followers here get satisfaction from his discourses," he said.<br /><br />The Nobel laureate, he said, was the country's most respected guest since 1959 and Arunachal Pradesh deserves his visit more than any other place.<br /><br />This is the Dalai Lama's sixth visit to Arunachal Pradesh as a state guest since 1983 and he has been to Tawang every time except in December 1996.<br /><br />His last visit in 2009 was planned exactly 50 years after he had crossed through Arunachal Pradesh, then North East Frontier Agency, after escaping from Lhasa.</p>
<p>Chief Minister Pema Khandu today said China has no business telling India what to do with regard to the Dalai Lama's movement in the country.<br /><br />"China has no business telling us what to do and what not to do (regarding the Dalai Lama's movement). It is not our next-door neighbour. India shares boundary with Tibet, not with China," he told reporters here.<br /><br />"In reality, the McMahon Line demarcates the boundary between India and Tibet," he said.<br />Khandu, who accompanied the Dalai Lama during an eight-hour-long drive from Guwahati to Bomdila yesterday, said it was a brave decision on the part of the Tibetan spiritual leader to undertake the arduous trip.<br /><br />"He wanted to reach Tawang anyhow and the weather could not deter him. Let us hope that his followers here get satisfaction from his discourses," he said.<br /><br />The Nobel laureate, he said, was the country's most respected guest since 1959 and Arunachal Pradesh deserves his visit more than any other place.<br /><br />This is the Dalai Lama's sixth visit to Arunachal Pradesh as a state guest since 1983 and he has been to Tawang every time except in December 1996.<br /><br />His last visit in 2009 was planned exactly 50 years after he had crossed through Arunachal Pradesh, then North East Frontier Agency, after escaping from Lhasa.</p>