The government does not take a stand on matters of faith, the Dalai says Mea on the issue of succession. Bharat News

New Delhi: After Union Minister Kiren Rijiju’s remarks, the Dalai Lama supported the announcement about his succession, including the statement that China would have no role in it, India said on Friday that it did not take any position on what was an issue regarding faith and religion.Interestingly, after the Chinese Foreign Ministry warned India to India in a media briefing, according to the Biresing agency report, against the intervention in Tibetan cases at the cost of China-India relations, objected to Riziju’s comments from the official transcript of briefing.Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jiswal, while replying to media questions, said, “The Government of India does not take any situation on matters related to belief and beliefs of religion and speak on those matters.” The government, committed to protect the freedom of religion for all in India, says Mea A spokesman for Mea said that the Indian government has always retained the freedom of religion for all in India and will continue to do so.India’s relations with China have shown signs of improvement in the last nine months, as they resolved the stand-off of a long border of five years in eastern Ladakh, resumption of high-level bilateral trips. Amidst global uncertainties, both sides are eager to maintain a stable working relationship.Defense Minister Rajnath Singh visited China for a meeting of SCO Defense Ministers last month. NSA Ajit Dowal has visited China twice since PM Modi’s meeting with President Xi Jinping in October last year on the Margin of the BRICS summit in Russia. As a special representative for border talks, Wang himself is likely to visit India this month for interaction with Dowal. However, India has not yet confirmed Modi’s participation at the SCO summit in SOPOs in China.Unlike the US, which officially suggests that China has no role in the succession of the Dalai Lama, India never took any position on the issue. China says that the successor of the 14th Dalai Lama can only be appointed through the “traditional” process that includes approval by the Central Government. In the rare comments of an Indian minister, Rijiju supported the claim of the spiritual leader that no one other than his belief would help in choosing his successor. The minister clarified on Friday that he was not speaking on behalf of the Indian government, but as a devotee himself, expressing the perspective of the followers of the Dalai Lama.“In the whole world, people who follow Buddhism and who believe in holy, supreme Dalai Lama-ji … It is everyone’s wish that the Dalai Lama-ji will decide themselves. There is no need for the government of India or to say anything for me. I am speaking as a follower. I am not saying anything.