{"id":255400,"date":"2025-01-18T00:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255400"},"modified":"2025-01-18T00:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:48:40","slug":"state-bjp-likely-to-announce-party-presidents-name-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/state-bjp-likely-to-announce-party-presidents-name-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"State BJP likely to announce party president&#8217;s name on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 17 Jan:<\/strong> The state BJP is likely to announce its new president&#8217;s name on Saturday, following the party&#8217;s top brasses&#8217; last huddle at the party office here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the party&#8217;s top leaders at the meeting were Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Deputy Chief Minister Chowna, incumbent party president and Health Minister Biyuram Wahge, and the party&#8217;s returning officer Tagin Siga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party insiders informed The Arunachal Times that former Pasighat East MLA Kaling Moyong&#8217;s name has been finalised to succeed incumbent party president Wahge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sources further informed that Moyong&#8217;s name was finalised as the favourite after a series of meetings among the party&#8217;s top leaders in Itanagar and Delhi. Moyong is reportedly backed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union minister and former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and the BJP&#8217;s Arunachal in-charge Ashok Singhal are overseeing the process of choosing the new party president. The party&#8217;s high command has assigned Sonowal to be the returning officer of the party&#8217;s new leadership election and selection process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The top contenders for the party&#8217;s president, such as former education minister Taba Tedir, former agriculture minister Tage Taki, Tezu MLA Dr Mohesh Chai, and senior leader Tarh Tarak were also present at Friday&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 17 Jan: The state BJP is likely to announce its new president&#8217;s name on Saturday, following the party&#8217;s top brasses&#8217; last huddle at the party office here on Friday. Among the party&#8217;s top leaders at the meeting were Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Deputy Chief Minister Chowna, incumbent party president and Health Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255400","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\/255400","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=255400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}