ProMASS News Bureau: Sep 16: Congress loses Arunchal Pradesh once again. Sources informed, 44 Congress MLAs including the Chief Minister Pema Khandu have joined People’s Party of Arunachal, PPA. The only MLA who has stayed with the Congress is Nabam Tuki.
In a press conference today evening after formally merging with the PPA in Itanagar Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that the decision was taken unanimously in presence of all the congress MLAs in a meeting today, except former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki who was out of station.
He said that the merger is done for the purpose of the development of the state and at this situation regionalism is a demand of the people which can be fulfilled by joining the only regional party of the state. Khandu also said being a part of NDA, whose government is in the Centre, would help overcome the pending liabilities which his government has inherited form the previous governments. BJP state unit President Tapir Gao has welcomed the step and termed it as pro-development.
