External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 23 dismissed China's repeated claims on Arunachal Pradesh as "ludicrous" and asserted that the frontier state was a "natural part of India".
In probably his first public comments on China's frequent claims on Arunachal Pradesh and its opposition to Indian leaders visiting the State, Mr. Jaishankar said it was not a new issue.
"This is not a new issue. I mean China has laid claim, it has expanded its claim. The claims are ludicrous to begin with and remain ludicrous today," he said in response to a question on the Arunachal issue after delivering a lecture at the prestigious NUS Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore.
