{"id":181430,"date":"2022-01-11T00:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181430"},"modified":"2022-01-11T00:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:15:46","slug":"after-joining-bjp-manipur-cong-mla-resigns-from-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/after-joining-bjp-manipur-cong-mla-resigns-from-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"After joining BJP, Manipur Cong MLA resigns from assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imphal, Jan 10 (PTI) A day after joining the BJP, Manipur Congress MLA Chaltonlien Amo on Monday resigned as a member of the state assembly, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a blow to the Congress, its Manipur vice-president Amo switched over to the ruling BJP after elections to the state assembly were announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Chaltonlien Amo has resigned from the membership of the Manipur Legislative Assembly,&#8221; its secretary K Meghajit Singh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since elections to the state assembly in 2017 when the Congress won 28 seats in a house of 60, the grand old party has been beset with desertions that depleted its strength in the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amo, who was elected from the Tipaimukh constituency, has been suspended from the Congress after he joined the saffron party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assembly polls will be held in the state in two phases on February 27 and March 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, Jan 10 (PTI) A day after joining the BJP, Manipur Congress MLA Chaltonlien Amo on Monday resigned as a member of the state assembly, an official said. In a blow to the Congress, its Manipur vice-president Amo switched over to the ruling BJP after elections to the state assembly were announced. &#8220;Chaltonlien Amo has [&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-181430","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\/181430","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=181430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}