{"id":62938,"date":"2019-03-26T00:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=62938"},"modified":"2019-03-26T00:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:22:27","slug":"aicc-apcc-issue-differing-candidates-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/aicc-apcc-issue-differing-candidates-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"AICC, APCC issue differing candidates\u2019 lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 25:<\/strong> On the last day of filing of nominations, chaos prevailed in the Congress party over the names of its candidates.<br \/>\nFor three assembly constituencies &#8211; Doimukh, Pongchau-Wakka and Changlang North &#8211; the candidates&#8217; lists released by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) differed.<br \/>\nOn the list released by the AICC, Nabam Vivek was nominated for the Doimukh seat, Marina Kenglang for Changlang North, and Chinsang Wangham for Pongchau-Wakka.<br \/>\nHowever, on the list issued by the APCC, the candidates were replaced by Nabam Rana (Doimukh), Thinghaap Taiju (Changlang North) and Thangkai Khusumchai (Pongchau-Wakka).<br \/>\nThe confusion surrounding the names of the candidates has angered some of the candidates and their supporters.<br \/>\nKenglang, vice president of the Arunachal Pradesh Mahila Congress and one of the aspiring candidates, expressed serious disappointment.<br \/>\n&#8220;Though my name was on the list issued by the AICC, APCC president Takam Sanjoy did not give the ticket to me. I started preparing to fight the election after seeing my name on the list. But surprisingly, the party refused to issue Forms A and B to me, and later it was given to Thinghaap Taiju. This is really unfortunate, and I would like to ask the APCC president to clarify the reason behind such a move,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n&#8220;I believe in the ideology of the Congress party and have been a grassroots worker for the last many years. Most of the members of the Pradesh Election Committee supported me for the party ticket. Something was seriously wrong with the whole process. I appeal to AICC president Rahul Gandhi to look into the ticket distribution issue in the state and take strict action against those involved in anti-party activities,&#8221; Kenglang added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Mar 25: On the last day of filing of nominations, chaos prevailed in the Congress party over the names of its candidates. For three assembly constituencies &#8211; Doimukh, Pongchau-Wakka and Changlang North &#8211; the candidates&#8217; lists released by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) differed. [&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-62938","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\/62938","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=62938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}