As China intensified its brazen effort to emphasise its claim over India's Arunachal Pradesh, President Droupadi Murmu opted to fly her maiden sortie from the Tezpur Air Force Station in Assam
The statement of Arindam Bagchi comes after China's Ministry of Civil Affairs came up with the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, which it referred to as "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet."