{"id":238945,"date":"2024-04-16T01:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=238945"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:41:04","slug":"tawang-gets-two-new-faces-as-mla-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/tawang-gets-two-new-faces-as-mla-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Tawang gets two new faces as MLA candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prem Chetry ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 15 Apr:<\/strong> Following former two-time MLA Tsering Tashi&#8217;s decision to not contest the assembly election this year, Tawang has got two new faces as MLA candidates: the BJP&#8217;s Tsering Dorjee,and the National People&#8217;s Party&#8217;s (NPP) Namgey Tsering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dorjee was born on 25 December, 1967. A resident of Gyangkhar village in Tawang, he is a veteran political leader at the grassroots level, as he had been the ZPM of Tawang block from 2014-2024 for two consecutive terms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsering was born on 1 August, 1981, and is a resident of Bomzha village in Tawang district. He has held the portfolio of the secretary-general of the Monpa Mimang Tsogpa since 2022, and was the ASM of 4-Kharung Bomzha from 2003-08. He was the chairperson of the 5-Mukto anchal samiti for two terms, from 2008-2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsering was the founding chairman of the Tawang District Sports Association, and also held the office of the chairman of the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tawang District Football Association and the Tawang District Badminton Association. He also played a crucial role in founding the Social and Cultural Development Society and Monyul Film Production. He has been instrumental in conducting the Tawang Festival and other events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prem Chetry ] TAWANG, 15 Apr: Following former two-time MLA Tsering Tashi&#8217;s decision to not contest the assembly election this year, Tawang has got two new faces as MLA candidates: the BJP&#8217;s Tsering Dorjee,and the National People&#8217;s Party&#8217;s (NPP) Namgey Tsering. Dorjee was born on 25 December, 1967. A resident of Gyangkhar village in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238945","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\/238945","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=238945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}