An Arunachal Pradesh students’ body sent a team to the frontier village of Taksing in the State’s Upper Subansiri district on Thursday (August 13, 2026), to “assess the prevailing situation in the border areas” following reports of alleged incursions and activities by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Political Context
the Nah Welfare Society, an organisation of a tribe residing near the international border, has been repeatedly flagging the alleged takeover of Indian territories by the PLA Although the Indian government and armed forces have denied any transgression by Chinese soldiers. The decision of the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) to visit a sensitive stretch of the India-China border followed a fact-finding report by the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), which said that Chinese soldiers had taken over a patrolling point abandoned by the Indian Army in 2023. He also said the union’s ‘Taksing Chalo, Bharat Bachao’ tour would culminate on August 15 with the hoisting of the national flag. On August 10, the PPA said that its four-member team, led by former Minister Kahfa Bengia, reached the frontier on July 10 and interacted with local residents and army personnel stationed in Taksing, Maza, and Galemo. The PPA said local residents told them that the Indian Army had never returned to Shera 5 Point, a border patrolling point, after a 2023 confrontation between the PLA and Arunachal Scouts, a specialised mountain infantry regiment of the Indian Army based in the State. “The PLA came back, destroyed, and dismantled the symbolic remains of the Indian patrolling troops at Shera 5 Point.
AAPSU president Meje Taku said his team’s tour to Taksing was planned to draw greater attention to border security, connectivity, and infrastructure in remote areas. “The people and youth of Arunachal Pradesh will not accept any attempt to undermine the country’s territorial integrity,” Mr. Taku said, calling for stronger security measures along the frontier. The AAPSU said it would prepare a ground assessment report based on its team’s visit and submit it to the Central and Arunachal Pradesh governments, seeking stronger security arrangements and faster implementation of development projects in the frontier villages. Since then, the Indian patrolling units have been denied access to the point by the PLA,” the PPA said in a statement.
