Former Arunachal CM Gegong Apang Joins Congress

Former Arunachal CM Gegong Apang Joins Congress

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Itanagar: Hardly a month after former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang resigned from the BJP citing his unhappiness about the party’s functioning, two former ministers resigned from the saffron brigade, ahead of the ensuing Assembly polls in the Atate.

The former ministers including Atum Welly and Tatar Kipa resigned from the primary membership of the BJP and joined the Congress on Saturday in a function organized at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan here.

The senior BJP leaders alleged that the BJP is not following norms and procedures in selecting candidates for the Assembly polls due in April or May this year.

Both Welly and Kipa in similar letters to State BJP president Tapir Gao on Thursday said that they were tendering their resignations from both the primary and active memberships of the party and from all portfolios assigned to them because the party had violated the norms and procedures by announcing the MLA candidates in advance and not following the resolution taken in the party’s State executive meeting.

Both Welly and Kipa were ministers in the Congress government in the State.

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