Live reporting: Modi promises to close down detention camps in Assam

Earlier speaking at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh, Narendra Modi blasted the Congress governments both at centre as well as in Arunachal Pradesh for their failure in meeting the aspirations of the people of Arunachal Pradesh.

Modi said that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and will always remain so. He praised the people of Arunachal Pradesh for defeating the evil designs of China.

Modi expressed his grief over the killing of  of Nido, a youth from Arunachal Pradesh, in Delhi.

Modi charged the union government with not listening to his own government in Arunacahal Pradesh.

Modi also said that three Hs - Herbal, Horticulture and Handicrafts, can give lot of opportunities to the people in Arunachal Pradesh.

Wading into a foreign policy issue for the first time, Narendra Modi today asked China to shed its "expansionist mindset", making it clear that no power on earth can snatch Arunachal Pradesh from India.