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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 24 Aug:<\/strong> Lone JD(U) MLA Techi Kaso on Wednesday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) along with 3 JDU ZPMs including Papum Pare ZPC Chukhu Bablu and 8 JDU corporators.<\/p>\n Only the state unit president Ruhi Tagung is left with the JD(U).<\/p>\n \u00a0With Kaso’s joining, BJP now has 49 out of 60 members in the legislative assembly.<\/p>\n Deputy speaker of the assembly Tesam Pongte accepted Kaso’s merger with the saffron party.<\/p>\n In December 2020, six JDU MLAs merged with the BJP leaving behind Kaso.<\/p>\n Earlier, Itanagar MLA Techi Kaso had refused to join his JDU colleagues in merging with the BJP and was dubbed ‘Iron Man of Capital.’<\/p>\n However, there have been speculations that Kaso would eventually join the BJP.<\/p>\n The JD(U) led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, had bagged seven of the 15 seats it had contested in the 2019 assembly elections, and emerged as the second-largest party in the state after BJP.<\/p>\n State JD( U) president Ruhi Tagung said, “Such tactics by BJP to lure all the JD(U) leaders from the party is very petty.”<\/p>\n Tagung said that he will be meeting the Bihar CM in first week of September during the party’s national meeting in Bihar and discuss the 2024 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 24 Aug: Lone JD(U) MLA Techi Kaso on Wednesday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) along with 3 JDU ZPMs including Papum Pare ZPC Chukhu Bablu and 8 JDU corporators. Only the state unit president Ruhi Tagung is left with the JD(U). \u00a0With Kaso’s joining, BJP now has 49 out of 60 members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198817","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=198817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}