{"id":241558,"date":"2024-06-03T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=241558"},"modified":"2024-06-03T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T19:53:18","slug":"arunachal-edu-ministers-defeat-to-ncp-greenhorn-surprises-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/arunachal-edu-ministers-defeat-to-ncp-greenhorn-surprises-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal edu minister&#8217;s defeat to NCP greenhorn surprises BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 2 Jun:<\/strong>\u00a0 The defeat of Arunachal Pradesh education minister and Yachuli MLA Taba Tedir came as a shock to the BJP which returned to power in the state for the third time in a row on Sunday, bagging 46 seats in the 60-member assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lost to a greenhorn and NCP nominee Toko Tatung by a slender margin of 228 votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tedir, a retired technocrat, made his foray into politics in the 2019 assembly polls when he was elected uncontested from the constituency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Rajiv Gandhi University&#8217;s associate professor of political science Dr. Nani Bath said the reason for Tedir&#8217;s defeat was because Christians voted against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Tatung, the entrepreneur-turned-politician, won the seat on the back of youth power and with a promise for a change,&#8221; an NCP supporter said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 2 Jun:\u00a0 The defeat of Arunachal Pradesh education minister and Yachuli MLA Taba Tedir came as a shock to the BJP which returned to power in the state for the third time in a row on Sunday, bagging 46 seats in the 60-member assembly. He lost to a greenhorn and NCP nominee Toko Tatung [&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-241558","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\/241558","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=241558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}