{"id":55072,"date":"2018-12-18T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=55072"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:14:20","slug":"panchayat-polls-likely-in-april-or-may-next-year-libang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/18\/panchayat-polls-likely-in-april-or-may-next-year-libang\/","title":{"rendered":"Panchayat polls likely in April or May next year: Libang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 17:<\/strong> Panchayati Raj (PR) Minister Alo Libang on Monday informed that the panchayat election in the state would be held either in April or in May of 2019.<br \/>\n&#8220;The court has given the state government four months&#8217; time to conduct the election,&#8221; Libang told media persons on the sideline of the inauguration of the noninvasive cardiology laboratory at Heema Hospital here.<br \/>\n&#8220;Several new districts have been created, and we need some time to prepare for the polls. However, the preparation is underway on a war footing and, hopefully, the local body election will be held in April or May without any further delay,&#8221; said Libang.<br \/>\nWhen contacted, PR Secretary Rinchin Tashi said the court&#8217;s order has been sent to the government for appraisal.<br \/>\nHe said the panchayat election could not be held at present &#8220;as most of the officials and administrative officers are busy in special summary revision of electoral roll preparation, as per the direction of the Election Commission of India.<br \/>\n&#8220;Moreover, the amendment of the rules and acts and other formalities are under process,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nThe state will have a two-tier PR system, replacing the earlier one.<br \/>\nThe Congress party has been pressuring the state government to conduct the panchayat election at the earliest.<br \/>\nThe panchayat election, along with the municipal elections of Itanagar and Pasighat, are due since May this year.<br \/>\nIt is believed that the ruling BJP is in favour of conducting the local body election along with the assembly and general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 17: Panchayati Raj (PR) Minister Alo Libang on Monday informed that the panchayat election in the state would be held either in April or in May of 2019. &#8220;The court has given the state government four months&#8217; time to conduct the election,&#8221; Libang told media persons on the sideline of the [&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-55072","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\/55072","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=55072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}