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Weather gods stand between Dalai Lama and Tawang

Today and tomorrow, heavy snowfall might blocks him from crossing the 13,700 feet-high Sela Pass

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File photo of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai during a religious discourse at Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery, Bomdila in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh (Photo: PTI)

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
The weather Gods in Arunachal Pradesh might succeed in what Beijing has failed to do --- preventing His Holiness The Dalai Lama from visiting Tawang during his nine-day tour of Arunachal Pradesh.

If, on Thursday and Friday, heavy snowfall blocks the Dalai Lama from crossing the 13,700 feet-high Sela Pass, through which runs the road from Bomdila and Dirang to Tawang, he might have to drive back to Tezpur without visiting the frontier district that Beijing covets so avidly. 

From Tezpur, he would drive to Itanagar to continue his tour of the rest of Arunachal Pradesh.

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