{"id":25478,"date":"2018-04-13T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=25478"},"modified":"2018-04-13T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:13:09","slug":"apyc-threatens-to-launch-stir-over-panchayat-elections-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/apyc-threatens-to-launch-stir-over-panchayat-elections-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"APYC threatens to launch stir over panchayat elections delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 12:<\/strong> Strongly criticizing the Pema Khandu-led BJP government in the state for delaying the panchayat elections, the Arunachal Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) on Thursday threatened to launch a series of democratic movements against the government.<br \/>\nAddressing media persons at the press club, APYC president Geli Ete accused the Pema Khandu government of delaying the panchayat elections &#8211; which are supposed to be held in May &#8211; &#8220;in the name of two-tier panchayat.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This government is incompetent and unable to release funds for panchayat development; that is why this systematic plan is being played out. The chief minister and the panchayati raj minister should resign on moral grounds,&#8221; Ete demanded.<br \/>\nThe APYC submitted a memorandum to the governor, seeking his intervention for early notification of the panchayat elections. It further accused the state government of &#8216;planning to put the panchayats to death because of selfish interests, in order to curtail grassroots democracy at the village level.&#8217;<br \/>\nIt said the State Election Commission was supposed to issue the panchayat elections notification on 13 April, but that, after the State Assembly passed the bill on two-tier panchayat in the state, the bill is now awaiting the President&#8217;s assent.<br \/>\n&#8220;Delaying the panchayat elections means curtailing the democratic rights of youths at the grassroots level,&#8221; Ete said, and alleged that the state government was &#8220;indulging in delaying tactics on the pretext of working on modalities for the two-tier panchayat.&#8221;<br \/>\nJoining the APYC in its protest over the issue, the anchal samiti member of Saku-Loglu-Moku in Lower Siang District, Zirgi Kadu, has submitted his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Apr 12: Strongly criticizing the Pema Khandu-led BJP government in the state for delaying the panchayat elections, the Arunachal Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) on Thursday threatened to launch a series of democratic movements against the government. Addressing media persons at the press club, APYC president Geli Ete accused the Pema Khandu government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25478","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\/25478","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=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}