NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (AFP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to India this week is a ploy to consolidate illegal territorial gains and its occupation of Tibet, the youth wing of an exiled Tibetan government said Tuesday.

The Tibetan Youth Congress and the Tibetan Women's Association said in a statement that Jiang would flaunt China's nascent superpower status before India's shaky coalition government headed by Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda.

"India should not consider this visit as another significant step in enhancing bilateral ties. The visit is mainly aimed at maximising China's gains, taking advantage of the present coalition government," it said.

The statement recalled a brief but bitter border war in 1962, shortly after former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Zhou Enlai popularised the slogan "Indians, Chinese are brothers," as an example of Chinese treachery.

It added: "China continues to occupy large areas of Indian territory in Aksai Chin ... and does not recognise Sikkim's merger into India," adding that any border talks should "not be at the expense of Tibet and Tibetans."

Sikkim is a former principality whose ruler was deposed in the 1970s.

The statement said Beijing continued its rule of terror in Tibet, which it invaded in 1949, causing the Tibetan god-king the Dalai Lama to flee the country.

It argued Beijing was transporting Chinese people into Tibet, forcing sterilisations and abortions on locals to "wipe out the Tibetan race" and had imprisoned the Dalai Lama's choice of the 10th incarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second highest figure.

China has installed a rival candidate but according to Tibetan theology only the Dalai Lama can install the Panchen Lama.

"New Delhi should give up its appeasement policy and take up the issue of 15,000 square kilometres (5,769 square miles) of its territory in Aksai Chin occupied by China since 1962," another Tibetan leader said earlier.

Beijing also does not endorse the British-drawn MacMohan Line demarcating 128,000 square kilometres (51,200 square miles) of the border and stakes claim to Indian parts of the territory.

The Dalai Lama heads the Tibetan government-in-exile in India. Beijing has consistently refused to hold talks with him on Tibet, demanding that he first renounce independence.