{"id":11051,"date":"2017-12-04T01:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2017-12-04T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:12:37","slug":"likabali-bye-poll-likely-to-witness-three-cornered-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/likabali-bye-poll-likely-to-witness-three-cornered-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Likabali bye-poll likely to witness three-cornered fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Dec 3:<\/strong> The bye-election to the Likabali seat is likely to be a three-cornered contest after the People&#8217;s Party of Arunachal (PPA) has selected Gumke Riba as its official candidate.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have chosen Gumke Riba, a senior leader of Likabali area, as our official candidate for the Likabali seat,&#8221; said PPA President Kahfa Bengia.<br \/>\n&#8220;Riba has joined the PPA today and will be filing his nomination papers tomorrow,&#8221; Bengia said.<br \/>\nThe BJP has fielded Kardo Nyicyor against Congress&#8217; Modam Dini for the Likabali seat.<br \/>\nThe PPA has not fielded any candidate for the Pakke-Kessang seat.<br \/>\nGumke Riba, a veteran BJP leader, resigned from the party on Sunday after Gensi ZPM Kardo Nyicyor was chosen as the party&#8217;s official candidate for the Likabali seat.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the state BJP president, Riba said that awarding the party ticket to a newcomer (Nyicyor), &#8216;who has made no contributions towards the party,&#8217; has hurt him and his supporters.<br \/>\nCiting his contributions to the growth of the party in the constituency, for which the Likabali mandal was also awarded the &#8216;best performing mandal&#8217; in Arunachal Pradesh last year, he lamented that his sincerity, loyalty and discipline went unrecognized by the BJP.<br \/>\n&#8216;We have no more faith in you and your party, which is practising indiscipline and corruption even in issuing party ticket,&#8217; the letter read.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, the BJP had announced its candidates for the bye-elections to Pakke-Kessang and Likabali. Biyuram Wahge and Kardo Nyicyor were the chosen BJP candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Dec 3: The bye-election to the Likabali seat is likely to be a three-cornered contest after the People&#8217;s Party of Arunachal (PPA) has selected Gumke Riba as its official candidate. &#8220;We have chosen Gumke Riba, a senior leader of Likabali area, as our official candidate for the Likabali seat,&#8221; said PPA President Kahfa Bengia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}