{"id":200680,"date":"2022-09-16T02:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=200680"},"modified":"2022-09-16T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:35:55","slug":"bjp-leader-responds-to-corruption-charges-against-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/bjp-leader-responds-to-corruption-charges-against-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader responds to  corruption charges against CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 15 Sep<\/strong>: BJP leader and power of attorney holder of Sela Transport, Likha Maaj, on Thursday issued a statement, responding to the corruption charges levelled against Chief Minister Pema Khandu by the Arunachal Against Corruption (AAC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the AAC are currently on a foot march to New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terming the allegations levelled by AAC chairperson Toko Sheetal against Khandu over the PDS scam &#8220;untrue and flimsy,&#8221; Maaj said that &#8220;Khandu&#8217;s name is unnecessarily dragged in the PDS scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the CM &#8220;is not involved in the case,&#8221; adding that he (Maaj) took ownership of Sela Transport in 2004, and that &#8220;the PDS items were distributed swiftly in the district from 2004 to 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defending the CM, Maaj said that Khandu &#8220;has no role over the PDS scam and is not even aware of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 15 Sep: BJP leader and power of attorney holder of Sela Transport, Likha Maaj, on Thursday issued a statement, responding to the corruption charges levelled against Chief Minister Pema Khandu by the Arunachal Against Corruption (AAC). Members of the AAC are currently on a foot march to New Delhi. Terming the allegations [&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-200680","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\/200680","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=200680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}