{"id":173397,"date":"2021-10-05T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=173397"},"modified":"2021-10-05T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:42:14","slug":"meghalaya-bjp-cong-declare-candidates-for-assembly-by-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/meghalaya-bjp-cong-declare-candidates-for-assembly-by-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya BJP, Cong declare candidates for assembly by-polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, Oct 4 (PTI) The BJP, which is a constituent of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, will contest in one of the three by-elections in the state slated for October 30, while the opposition Congress decided to fight in all the three seats, party leaders said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A BJP spokesperson said the party nominated Kingstone Marak, vice-president of its West Garo Hills district unit, for the Rajabala constituency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His name was selected at a meeting of the state election committee, attended by BJP national vice-president and state in-charge Chuba Ao.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress has decided to contest in all the three seats &#8211; Rajabala, Mawryngkneng and Mawphlang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AICC has approved the candidature of Highlander Kharmalki from Mawryngkneng, Kennedy C Khyriem (former MLA) from Mawphlang and Hashina Yasmin Mondal from Rajabala, a senior party leader said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Khyriem is a former MLA, the other two are new faces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mawryngkneng and Rajabala seats were earlier represented by the Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The by-polls in the three assembly constituencies were necessitated by the deaths of sitting legislators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Democratic Party had earlier announced that former Indian footballer Eugeneson Lyngdoh is its candidate for the Mawphlang seat which was held by his father SK Sunn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, Oct 4 (PTI) The BJP, which is a constituent of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, will contest in one of the three by-elections in the state slated for October 30, while the opposition Congress decided to fight in all the three seats, party leaders said on Monday. A BJP spokesperson said the party nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173397","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=173397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}