Bharatiya Janata Party members of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh has demanded that a joint delegation of parliamentarians and journalists should visit the state to verify reports of intrusions by Chinese troops into 20 km of Indian territory.

Two MPs from the party, Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao, made these allegations at a news conference held in Parliament House on Tuesday. The two threatened that unless the overnment stopped these incursions forthwith, students of Arunachal Pradesh would be forced to take recourse to violence.

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"We Arunachalis would like to know our status, are we Indians or not? In April a member of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly, two IAS officers and another officer were denied visa by the Chinese authorities. On an earlier occasion they had denied visa to Gegong Apang when he was chief minister of the state and later the speaker of the state assembly," Rijiju said.

Gao claimed that the occupation of Indian land by the Chinese has been an ongoing process and that Sumdorong Chu valley in the Tawang sector was one of the first places to be brought under Chinese control. "The People's Liberation Army is using a helipad in this sector," he charged.

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"I am astonished to hear External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's statement on this issue. Instead of saying that not an inch of Indian territory would be allowed to be annexed by China, here is a minister who goes on record saying '...border is on land and not in the sky -- when you finally arrive at it, some adjustments will take place here and there'. This is a loaded statement and a preparation to give Indian land to China," Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao said.

The two alleged that the Chinese are now eyeing some key areas in the Dibang valley.