Hyderabad, March 21
The CPI today said unrest in Tibet was an “internal affair” of China and took objection to the Speaker of United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
“The government should see that the meeting (between Pelosi and Dalai Lama) should not turn into an anti-China meeting,” the CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan told a press conference here.
Bardhan, who arrived here earlier in the day to oversee arrangements for the party’s national congress beginning on Sunday, said no one should interfere in the internal affairs of any country. “All countries have internal areas where situation is sometimes disturbed.
There should be no interference from anyone,” he said.
The CPI and CPM have refused to condemn the violence in Tibet on the ground that it is an internal matter of China while Dalai Lama has described it as “cultural genocide” by the communist country.
“How can we condemn the incidents in Tibet, which is an internal part of China?” the CPM leader Sitaram Yechuri had said in Delhi recently when asked about the Chinese military crackdown on protestors.
