India, April 9 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday criticised China's recent move to rename some parts of Arunachal Pradesh, saying it won't change the ground realities and cautioned that it would sour relations between New Delhi and Beijing.

"Recently China renamed some parts of Arunachal Pradesh in one of their websites. They won't gain anything from such renaming. I want to tell our neighbour, what if tomorrow we rename some of their regions and states? Will those places become ours because of the name change? China shouldn't have such misconceptions," Singh said at a public meeting at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh.

"I think such acts will lead to souring of relations between our two nations. India wants to maintain friendly r...