{"id":143932,"date":"2020-12-08T00:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=143932"},"modified":"2020-12-08T00:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:27:48","slug":"ccc-chairman-accuses-bjp-of-luring-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/ccc-chairman-accuses-bjp-of-luring-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"CCC chairman accuses BJP of luring candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 7 Dec:<\/strong> City Congress Committee (CCC) chairman Yumlam Achung has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of luring candidates to secure seats without any contest in the upcoming panchayat and municipal elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The way the BJP is playing politics by paying money or extending favours such as chairmanship (of various departments) and negotiating to win unopposed is not acceptable in a democratic country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that all political parties should participate in the elections, and that the people would decide who they want to vote for, Achung claimed to have &#8220;noticed that some candidates are being offered money or the position of chairman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While he did not reveal names, he said, &#8220;Many seats in the panchayat election are uncontested and you will see a few people getting appointed as chairmen soon. The young leaders should not fall for such political tactics and avoid making such deals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also clarified rumours doing the rounds that the Congress candidate for Ward No 17 under the Itanagar Municipal Corporation (IMC) compromised his candidature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Today was the last date of withdrawal, and our candidate is still in the race. I will never encourage my candidates<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0to withdraw their candidature or compromise with others. The Congress is fielding very few candidates this time, but we will give a strong fight,&#8221; Achung said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the IMC election, the Congress is fielding three candidates, in Wards 3, 16 and 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 7 Dec: City Congress Committee (CCC) chairman Yumlam Achung has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of luring candidates to secure seats without any contest in the upcoming panchayat and municipal elections. &#8220;The way the BJP is playing politics by paying money or extending favours such as chairmanship (of various departments) and [&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-143932","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\/143932","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=143932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}