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ITANAGAR, 31 Jul:<\/strong> The India-Tibetan Cooperation Forum (ITCF), an umbrella body of Indians supporting the Tibetan freedom movement, on Saturday that it has decided to observe 20 October as a protest day against the Chinese aggression on Arunachal in 1962 and Ladakh in 2020.<\/p>\n The Chinese attack on Arunachal had started on 20 October, 1962. The armies of India and China were also engaged in a face-off at Galwan valley in Ladakh in June last year.<\/p>\n Dharamshala-based Central Tibetan Administration’s newly-elected President (Sikyong) Penpa Tsering, recognized as the highest political leader for exiled Tibetans across the world, is likely to attend the function, senior ITCF functionary Rinchen Khandu Khrimey said.<\/p>\n “Sino-India ties cannot progress unless the Tibet issue is amicably resolved and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama regains his Potala Palace in Lhasa in a dignified manner,” Khrimey said.<\/p>\n He said during a meeting of the ITCF in Guwahati (Assam) on Friday that it was decided that the ITCF and other India-Tibet support groups would hold the function in Tawang on 20 October.<\/p>\n Khrimey added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent birthday wishes to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual head, gave fresh hope to millions of Tibetans.<\/p>\n The 14th Dalai Lama has made India his home since fleeing China in 1959.<\/p>\n Tsering, who was sworn in as the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, is likely to visit Tibetan settlements at various places during his trip in October, said Khrimey, the national convenor of Tibetan cause India Core Group, which is a part of the ITCF. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 31 Jul: The India-Tibetan Cooperation Forum (ITCF), an umbrella body of Indians supporting the Tibetan freedom movement, on Saturday that it has decided to observe 20 October as a protest day against the Chinese aggression on Arunachal in 1962 and Ladakh in 2020. The Chinese attack on Arunachal had started on 20 October, 1962. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}