{"id":55469,"date":"2018-12-21T01:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=55469"},"modified":"2018-12-21T01:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:18:55","slug":"pema-tells-people-to-shun-money-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/pema-tells-people-to-shun-money-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pema tells people to shun &#8216;money politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZIRO, Dec 20<\/strong>: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday urged the people to shun &#8220;money politics&#8221; during election and to choose leaders who could lead the state towards development.<br \/>\n&#8220;People should oppose money culture during elections by political leaders to woo voters and instead elect such leaders who will serve the people honestly and dedicatedly,&#8221; he said while addressing a function here after the foundation stone laying ceremony of several important highway projects by union minister Nitin Gadkari.<br \/>\nPema claimed that his &#8216;Team Arunachal&#8217; would emerge as a strong force in the 2019 election.<br \/>\nThe assembly election in Arunachal Pradesh is due next year.<br \/>\n&#8220;The new government will bring more reforms in the governance,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nTaking a dig at opposition Congress, Khandu alleged that the opposition party followed an &#8220;appeasement&#8221; policy because of which the state remained &#8220;underdeveloped&#8221; in the past several decades.<br \/>\n&#8220;Time has changed after NDA came to power in 2014 and the state along with other northeastern states have started getting more attention,&#8221; he said, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attached priority to the region by sanctioning many schemes.<br \/>\nThe chief minister also said that in the last four and half years of Modi government, central ministers have visited the state 130 times. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIRO, Dec 20: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday urged the people to shun &#8220;money politics&#8221; during election and to choose leaders who could lead the state towards development. &#8220;People should oppose money culture during elections by political leaders to woo voters and instead elect such leaders who will serve the people honestly and dedicatedly,&#8221; [&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-55469","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\/55469","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=55469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}