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Only Dalai Lama can decide his successor, says India
Hindustan Times Delhi
|July 04, 2025
Ina terse message to China, India asserted on Thursday that the right to pick the 14th Dalai Lama's successor rests with the incumbent and the institution, a day after Beijing said that his reincarnation must have its approval.
India added that Union ministers Kiren Rijiju (BJP) and Rajiv Ranjan Singh (JDU), Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu and Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang will attend Dalai Lama's 90th birthday celebrations in Dharamshala on July 6.
On Thursday, Rijiju said that the institution of the Dalai Lamais the most important and defining institution for Tibetans not justin Tibet butacross the world.
“And all those who follow the Dalai Lama feel that the Incarnation is to be decided by the established convention and as per the wish of the Dalai Lama himself... ‘Nobody else has the right to decide itexcept him,” Rijiju said. He said India's decision to depute two senior ministers to attend the celebrations is not a political issue.
This story is from the July 04, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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