{"id":11717,"date":"2017-12-09T02:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=11717"},"modified":"2017-12-09T02:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:35:51","slug":"ppa-joins-dog-remark-wagon-demands-pemas-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/ppa-joins-dog-remark-wagon-demands-pemas-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"PPA joins \u2018dog\u2019 remark wagon, demands Pema\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 8:<\/strong> Parroting the demands of several organizations, the People&#8217;s Party of Arunachal (PPA) on Friday demanded that Chief Minister Pema Khandu step down immediately.<br \/>\nDescribing the CM as &#8220;immature and characterless&#8221; over the &#8216;dog&#8217; remark he allegedly hurled at Leader of Opposition Takam Pario, PPA president Kahfa Bengia said Pema should step down.<br \/>\n&#8220;If the CM steps down, he will be in jail,&#8221; said Bengia, and further claimed that, besides multiple cases of corruption pending against him in the Supreme Court, &#8220;a rape case lodged against him (Pema) in 2007 is also pending at the CJM&#8217;s court in Yupia.&#8221;<br \/>\nBengia, who was addressing a press conference here, also rejected any possibility of forgiving the CM for the &#8216;dog&#8217; remark, saying the time for an apology has passed.<br \/>\n&#8220;The legislators should have withdrawn support from him for maligning his honourable position,&#8221; Bengia said.<br \/>\nHe, however, failed to respond to the media on the question of the accountability of the Speaker over the CM&#8217;s remark, which had been made during an Assembly session.<br \/>\nPPA general secretary Kaling Jerang also accused Pema of &#8220;failing miserably as chief minister,&#8221; and said the state witnessed issues such as Chakma-Hajong, TRP 2014, fiasco in the health department, PMGSY scandal, etc, under his leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 8: Parroting the demands of several organizations, the People&#8217;s Party of Arunachal (PPA) on Friday demanded that Chief Minister Pema Khandu step down immediately. Describing the CM as &#8220;immature and characterless&#8221; over the &#8216;dog&#8217; remark he allegedly hurled at Leader of Opposition Takam Pario, PPA president Kahfa Bengia said Pema should [&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-11717","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\/11717","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=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}