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Arunachal Pradesh : Apang faces dissidence |
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Internal bickering has surfaced in the BJP-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Arunachal Pradesh.
Sources said three senior colleagues of chief minister Gegong Apang - Speaker Setong Sena, planning minister Thupten Tempa and industries minister Tsering Gyurmey - have decided to part ways with the party after being allegedly manhandled by BJP workers in a hotel on September 24.
The humiliated leaders along with 12 legislators of the militancy-infested Tirap and Changlang districts and some members from Tawang and West Kameng districts have now planned to either join the Congress or float a new party, the Arunachal Democratic Front, the sources added.
The BJP legislators from Tirap, Changlang, Tawang and West Kameng districts have joined the dissenters’ camp fearing that their chance of getting party tickets in the next Assembly election was bleak.
Shaken by rumours about the dissension, the BJP’s state unit called an emergent meeting. “It was unanimously decided that all the sitting BJP legislators of Arunachal Pradesh would be given party tickets for the forthcoming Assembly elections,” the party’s state unit chief Jamoh told newspersons after the meeting.
He also criticised the Congress for spreading the rumour.
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