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Itanagar, Feb 3 : The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) has decided to boycott all Chinese goods in the state from February 8.

The modus operandi of the student activists will be door to door visit to every shop to identify presence of any Chinese goods, union president Takam Tatung said in a communiqué here today.
The apex students' body of the state, while seeking cooperation from the traders' community in its movement, said enough time was given for the disposal of Chinese goods in the state as earlier requested by Arunachal Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) last month.

''The boycott call has been necessitated in the backdrop of repeated Chinese claim over Arunachal. The approach adopted by the Union Government in the case of Chinese issue leaves a lot to be desired and one of the cases in study was the alleged captivity of one Chabe Chader, a villager of Gumsing Taying under Taksing Circle of Upper Subansiri by the Chinese Army. Chader went missing from Asaphila border area since August 18, 2007,'' Tatung said.

The issue was pursued by the earlier AAPSU leadership even at the level of the Union Home Ministry and then Lok Sabha Member Kiren Rijiju raised the issue in Parliament.

At that time External Affairs Ministry Joint Secretary Ashok K Kantha said the matter had been taken up through diplomatic channels as well as through flag meetings, border personnel meeting and the hotline at Bumla.

''However, till date there is no trace of Chader, thus vindicating the union's apprehension that in the case of China our Union Government can even forego the safety of an innocent citizen of Arunachal Pradesh,'' Tatung said while validating their boycott of Chinese goods.

He further alleged that the successive governments at the Centre had utterly neglected Arunachal in case of development, especially in the aspect of border roads, while China had constructed all weather road leading up to its border posts facing Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh and Demchok and Fukche in Ladakh.