Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said that the Tibet issue must be resolved.
Dalai Lama came to India in 1949 and he should get justice, Athawale said adding that Tibet people should not suffer.
He also reacted to the letter from the Chinese Embassy in Delhi to Indian MPs expressing “concern” for attending a dinner reception hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile saying External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will reply to it.
The Chinese Embassy had said that Indian Parliamentarians should “refrain from providing support to the Tibetan independence forces”.
Last week, a group of Members of Parliament, including Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Sujeet Kumar, BJP’s Maneka Gandhi and Congress MPs Jairam Ramesh attended a dinner reception hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile.
Reacting to it Tenzin Lekshay, the spokesperson of the Tibetan government-in-exile, slammed China, saying that “India’s constant solidarity for Tibet makes China uneasy.”
He further said that many great Indian leaders supported Tibet in the past and support it even now.
While rebuking Beijing, the spokesperson said, “China must stop growling here and there all the time.” “If they are serious about the wellbeing of Tibet and Tibetan people, the time has come for them to act positively to resolve the Sino-Tibetan conflict through dialogue,” he added.
Saying that the Tibet issue is “certainly not an internal issue” of China, Lekshay said that whatever happens in Tibet is a serious matter of concern for all the people around the world.
“China calling out Central Tibetan Administration as a separatist political group will not help resolve the Sino-Tibetan Conflict. It is well known that Middle Way Policy is not about separation rather it aspires for genuine autonomy within the framework of the Chinese Constitution,” Lekshay said.
During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, violent clashes broke out between Tibetan residents and Chinese forces forcing the 14th Dalai Lama to flee to India.
In India, Dalai Lama, the supreme Tibetan Buddhist leader, established a government-in-exile in India.
