Pakyong, July 12 -- Rajya Sabha MP Dorjee Tshering Lepcha reaffirmed the need to recognise Tibet, urging the Centre on Saturday to call the approximately 1,200 kilometre international boundary of Sikkim as the 'Indo-Tibet border' instead of the 'Indo-China border.'

The Rajya Sabha MP visited the Machong village in Sikkim on Saturday, a border village, where he reiterated the demand.

"I raised an issue in the Parliament during the Budget Session that this is the Tibet border, not the China Border. The central government should direct the central agencies, like Army, BRO, that they must call it the Indo-Tibet Border, not the Indo-China border," MP Lepcha told mediapersons.

Lepcha, in the 2024 monsoon session of Parliament, had asked the ...