Itanagar, April 3: Union home minister P. Chidambaram today wound up his two-day whirlwind visit of Arunachal Pradesh and left for Calcutta this afternoon.
He visited Tawang and Tirap districts before leaving for Calcutta via Jorhat, official sources here said.
Chidamabaram flew to Tawang early this morning in a helicopter, accompanied by chief minister Dorjee Khandu and home minister Tako Dabi, the sources said.
In Tawang, he visited the monastery, the war memorial, a craft centre and the Khando Dowa Sangmo district hospital. He could not visit Lumla outpost on the Sino-Indian border or interact with the army because of time constraints but he held a meeting with deputy commissioner Gamli Padu and officials.
In the afternoon, Chidambaram went to the troubled Tirap district on the Indo-Myanmar border. He visited the Assam Rifles camp and several police stations. He also interacted with villagers during his two-and-a-half-hour stay at the district headquarters of Khonsa.
His scheduled three-day trip was cut short by inclement weather that prevented him from visiting Tawang on April 1 and 2.
PC visits Tawang, Tirap
