{"id":233595,"date":"2024-01-30T01:40:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=233595"},"modified":"2024-01-30T01:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:10:18","slug":"late-mateys-son-to-contest-assembly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/late-mateys-son-to-contest-assembly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Matey&#8217;s son to contest assembly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 29 Jan:<\/strong> Yangsen Matey, son of former Khonsa West MLA Yumsem Matey, has said that he will contest the assembly polls from his late father&#8217;s constituency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh are due this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yangsen&#8217;s father represented the Khonsa West seat in Tirap district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yangsen, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday, said that he is hopeful that he will get the party ticket to contest the assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twenty-nine-year-old Yangsen said, &#8220;I want to unite the people, especially Noctes and Ollos. I want to shed the political differences among the people and bring them together, which was my father&#8217;s dream also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He appealed to the people not to fight against each other due to political and ideological differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yumsem Matey was shot dead by unknown assailants near the Indo-Myanmar border in Lazu circle of the district on 16 December last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 21 December, the state government handed over the case to the National Investigation Agency. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 29 Jan: Yangsen Matey, son of former Khonsa West MLA Yumsem Matey, has said that he will contest the assembly polls from his late father&#8217;s constituency. The assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh are due this year. Yangsen&#8217;s father represented the Khonsa West seat in Tirap district. Yangsen, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on [&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-233595","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\/233595","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=233595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}