{"id":225354,"date":"2023-10-04T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=225354"},"modified":"2023-10-04T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:50:14","slug":"villagers-mourn-gbs-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/villagers-mourn-gbs-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers mourn GB&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 3 Oct:<\/strong> Jakhu Wangsa, the gaon bura (GB) of Longkai village in Longding district, passed away on 2 October, following a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had served as an ASM from 1988 to 1993, and five years as a GPM. He was the GB of the village at the time of his demise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recalling him as a selfless person and a great leader, the villagers of Longkai said that Wangsa &#8220;always fought for the right in every social issue,&#8221; adding that he had &#8220;saved so many people from the NSCN and was beaten up by the NSCN when he tried to save the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He once sacrificed to save two village people when the NSCN kidnapped them and took them to Myanmar. At that time, he went to Myanmar on foot, but the NSCN didn&#8217;t release them due to lack of money which they demanded, so he decided to stay in Myanmar until the NSCN&#8217;s demand had been met, while the two others were allowed to return to the village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He himself returned after two weeks, after the militants&#8217; demand had been met,&#8221; the villagers stated in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 3 Oct: Jakhu Wangsa, the gaon bura (GB) of Longkai village in Longding district, passed away on 2 October, following a prolonged illness. He had served as an ASM from 1988 to 1993, and five years as a GPM. He was the GB of the village at the time of his demise. Recalling him [&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-225354","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\/225354","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=225354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}