{"id":145095,"date":"2020-12-12T02:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=145095"},"modified":"2020-12-12T02:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:39:15","slug":"assn-opposes-participation-of-non-apsts-in-pr-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/12\/assn-opposes-participation-of-non-apsts-in-pr-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Assn opposes participation of non-APSTs in PR election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 11 Dec:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Abo Tani Association (AAATA) on Friday demanded that the state government debar non-APST candidates from participating in the panchayati raj (PR) election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a press conference held here, AAATA convenor Maji Tayem informed that the association has filed a public interest litigation in the Gauhati High Court over the eligibility of non-APSTs for the local body elections in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arguing that Arunachal is a 100 percent tribal state and non-APSTs cannot be eligible to contest in elections, the AAATA convenor demanded that the authorities concerned of the affected districts like Lohit, Namsai, Changlang and Papum Pare &#8220;cancel non-APST candidates from panchayati raj election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association threatened to go to the court if the authority fails to debar non-APSTs from taking part in the panchayati raj election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 11 Dec: The All Arunachal Abo Tani Association (AAATA) on Friday demanded that the state government debar non-APST candidates from participating in the panchayati raj (PR) election. During a press conference held here, AAATA convenor Maji Tayem informed that the association has filed a public interest litigation in the Gauhati High Court [&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-145095","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\/145095","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=145095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}