Google sattelite map is showing some areas of Arunachal Pradesh in Mandarin instead of Hindi or english,making them appear as part of China which lead to a huge controversy. Just few hours before the crucial sino-indian talks of the border dispute, the changes were noticed on thursday.
Apart from major places like Itanagar,Tawang most of the parts of arunachal are marked in chinese. Even the southern boundary with Assam and northern boundary with China are shown in broken lines,while the boundary lines of the state with Bhutan and Myanmar are shown in white line.
Its also suspected that Chinese troublemakers might have hacked google and changed the names. Google authorities could not be contacted when the report was filed. the images have shocked Delhi and Arunachal.
‘‘This is shocking. How could Google change the names of places of a sovereign country without the country’s knowledge?’’ fumed Congress’s West Arunachal MP Takam Sanjoy.
Former BJP MP from Arunachal, Kiren Rijiju firmly states its a gameplan by China. Sanjoy has informed AICC general secretary in charge of Arunachal, Narayan Swami and urged him to take asction against Google.
‘‘The government should come out openly with its stand and take Google to task. Google must explain under what authority did they include Chinese language in Arunachal Pradesh’s map,’’ the MP said.
Source - Times of India



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