{"id":60769,"date":"2019-02-19T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=60769"},"modified":"2019-02-19T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:50:00","slug":"former-minister-l-wanglat-rejoins-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/former-minister-l-wanglat-rejoins-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Former minister L Wanglat rejoins INC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 18:<\/strong> Veteran political leader and former home minister James L Wanglat joined the Indian National Congress (INC) in a function at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan here on Monday.<br \/>\nWanglat said he submitted his resignation from the BJP on 6 February for &#8220;its attitude and stand on the citizenship amendment bill, which was against the interests of the people of the Northeast region and the indigenous tribal people of the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nClaiming that the BJP leaders were not given a platform to place their grievances, Wanglat said, &#8220;Joining the Congress is like homecoming as I have served the party in the past and will continue to serve it.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn whether he would contest in the parliamentary election from Arunachal East, Wanglat said he was &#8220;prepared to take up the responsibility if the party wishes so.&#8221;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, former Changlang zilla parishad chairperson Jowkhong Singpho, along with 17 other BJP gram panchayat members and public leaders of Miao assembly constituency, also joined the Congress party.<br \/>\nThe programme was attended by Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee president Takam Sanjoy, state Congress Legislature Party leader Takam Pario, and other senior party leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Feb 18: Veteran political leader and former home minister James L Wanglat joined the Indian National Congress (INC) in a function at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan here on Monday. Wanglat said he submitted his resignation from the BJP on 6 February for &#8220;its attitude and stand on the citizenship amendment bill, which was [&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-60769","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\/60769","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=60769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}