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One anguished reader of The Arunachal Times wrote, “Osama killed Dorjee Khandu”. But for the people of Arunachal Pradesh, Khandu is probably more important. TERESA REHMAN says the media and people of the Northeast wish the country would care more about the missing CM

By a quirk of fate, this forlorn frontier state has managed to surface on the radar of the so-called national media. Arunachal Pradesh is in news. For a rather unfortunate and gripping reason – its chief minister Dorjee Khandu and his aides in a helicopter are missing for the past four days now. Some of the ‘national’ channels like Times Now managed to fly in their correspondents to the state to provide updates of any information on the head of the state government.

As the people of the state spent sleepless nights praying for the safety of their leader, by the third day, the news of Khandu’s rescue operations were reduced to a ticker on the television screens of the national channels. Of course, they had more meaty news in the form of Osama and Obama. Long deliberations on Osama’s death and its implications eclipsed Khandu. One anguished reader of The Arunachal Times wrote, “Osama killed Dorjee Khandu”. But for the people of Arunachal Pradesh, Khandu is probably more important.

Dorjee Khandu, hailing from the Monpa tribe was born in 1955 and was sworn in as the fifth chief minister of the state in 2007. Inclement weather and rough terrain has ‘delayed’ rescue operations of the possible wreckage of the Pawan Hans AS350 B-3 helicopter carrying the chief minister and four others which went missing after it took off from Tawang at 9.50am on Saturday. The last radio contact with the ground was about 20 minutes after take off as it flew over the Sela Pass along the Chinese border perched at an altitude of 13,700 feet..... more