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The people of Arunachal Pradesh today exercised their franchise to elect 2469 Gram Panchayat Members, 992 Anchal Samiti members and 128 Zilla Parishad Members from total of 7423, 1779 and 161 GPM’s, ASM’s and ZPM’s berths in the state respectively. The remaining berths were earlier filled up, uncontested. Out of the sixteen districts in Arunachal Pradesh, Tawang became the lone District where all the ZPM seats were filled uncontested. For details, see the image below.

Like rest of the state, denizens of the Apatani plateau too exercised their franchise today to elect 6 ZPM’s from out of 7 ZPM’s seats. One ZPM berth went to Rubu Hangu, unopposed from Tajang Anchal Samiti Constituency. For remaining 6 constituencies viz., Diibo Anchal Samiti Constituency, Hari Anchal Samiti Constituency, Kalung-Reru Anchal Samiti Constituency, Hija Anchal Samiti Constituency, Hong -Nitii AS Constituency and Hong-Niichi AS Constituency, 14 persons vied for the seat.

[People at Hari Constituency queuing up to cast their votes]

From Diibo constituency, Michi Shalla and Bamin Siri contested for the ZPM seat. Hage Tara Asha and Hage Shalla Yassung and Dani Yami and Nada Dumi contested for Hari constituency and Hija Constituency respectively, where ZPM seats were reserved for women this term. Kalung-Reru constituency ZPM seat was contested between Subu Kojee, Nani Tani, Subu Lento and Kuru Tai whereas Hong Nichii and Niiti constituency was contested between Punyo Kathe and Hibu Uma and between Tilling Dolley and Tilling Tadii respectively.

The counting of the votes polled would be done on June 2^nd.

Update 29-05-2008: The three-tier Panchayati Raj election in the state was by and large peaceful with 15 polling stations registering 100% polling, overall 83% turnout of the electors and only 10 polling stations going for re-poll.

O.k the poll is closed and votes are in. The verdict is:

• 73% of the readers who voted says ‘Yes’ the anonymous commenting should be allowed.
• 16% says ‘No’
• 4% are not sure whether anonymous commenting should be allowed or not and
• 6% voted to say that anonymous comments should be allowed subject to comments not going off on tangent, which I do agree.

Well, thank you readers for voting so wholeheartedly and let your views known and also thank you for bringing me out of dilemma on whether I should or shouldn’t allow anonymous commenting on my blog. Going with you I’ve opened anonymous commenting on Arunachal Diary once again.

So, what are you waiting for; stage is yours now, go on commenting…even anonymously, of course. Till I come up with commenting policy, my only request to you is be civil, respect others and do not feed the trolls.

When I came across this post by Ashok Chavda, where he says that he has premonition that second Indo-China war is on anvil, may be after the Beijing Olympics, over the unresolved issue of Arunachal Pradesh; I thought was it possible? No doubt China is using Arunachal Pradesh as one of the pressure card, but with International community watching and China desperately trying put up a ’good boy’ image, would China mount an offensive against India over the unresolved border issue of Arunachal Pradesh? Least chance, I thought, though they would continue to keep this issue unresolved as long as eternity to mount pressure on India.

But this report has made me sit back and wonder.

There are more indications Beijing is making serious preparations to enter the next war between India/Pakistan to enforce China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Satellite images studied by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) have revealed launch sites for medium range ballistic missiles in and west of Delingha in north central China. DNA-India report the missiles based there are the DF-21 a medium range ballistic missile of 1,330 miles (2,150 km) China’s first solid fuel rocket and carries a single warhead of 200-300 kilo tons. Hans Kristensen, a researcher with the FAS stated, “From these launch pads for DF-21 missiles, southern Russia and northern India will be within range but not Japan, Taiwan or Guam.” It is not Japan, Taiwan, Guam or Russia Beijing has territorial disputes with but India for control over India’s northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh which China invaded for one month in October 1962.

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The DF-21’s range brings all of Arunachal Pradesh and Indian defenses there within striking distance. Missile launch sites were detected along a 170 mile (275 km) stretch of highway leading from Delingha west through Da Qaidam to Mahai in northern Qinghai province.

Apart from the missile launch sites that targets India and Russia, there is a report of China deploying large number of Jin class submarine at a naval base on Hainan Island near South China sea.

There are clear signals that China is strengthening it arsenal that could pose a long-term threat to India’s security.

Recently, the Indian Navy Chief had expressed concern over the number of nuclear submarines China is acquiring. Admiral Sureesh Mehta said though India is not worried about Beijing building a strategic naval base on the Hainan Island near South China Sea, it is concerned about the numbers.

The Navy had been tracking the developments on the Hainan island for sometime now but the recent reports carried high resolution satellite images of the base. The images showed that China has deployed its new Jin class submarine at the base.