{"id":63827,"date":"2019-04-06T01:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=63827"},"modified":"2019-04-06T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:55:51","slug":"bjp-pandal-torched-in-likabali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/bjp-pandal-torched-in-likabali\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP pandal torched in Likabali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Correspondent<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>LIKABALI, Apr 5:<\/strong> The political rivalry among the parties and contesting candidates here took an ugly turn when some unidentified miscreants set fire to a BJP pandal here in Lower Siang district in the wee hours of Friday.<br \/>\nThe pandal had been set up at the football ground by the BJP for a party rally on Saturday. The fire had damaged a major portion of the pandal before the fire tenders arrived.<br \/>\nThe BJP leaders here said the arson was the handiwork of some political opponents.<br \/>\n&#8220;Some political opponents are worried over the BJP&#8217;s winning prospect here and they are instigating such<br \/>\nimmoral activities to demoralize our party workers,&#8221; said Lower Siang BJP in-charge Techi Necha.<br \/>\nDistrict BJP spokesperson Mikjom Taso and other BJP leaders also condemned the act and said setting fire to any house or structure is considered a &#8220;moral offence&#8221; in the Galo society.<br \/>\nSenior police officials and the district magistrate visited the spot and took stock of the situation.<br \/>\nThe police said they rushed fire tenders immediately after receiving information about the incident at around 4.15 am. A case has been lodged at the police station here and investigation is underway.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the BJP has repaired the damaged pandal and made it ready for conducting the poll rally as per the schedule.<br \/>\nChief Minister Pema Khandu and the BJP&#8217;s Arunachal West MP candidate, Kiren Rijiju, are expected to address the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent LIKABALI, Apr 5: The political rivalry among the parties and contesting candidates here took an ugly turn when some unidentified miscreants set fire to a BJP pandal here in Lower Siang district in the wee hours of Friday. The pandal had been set up at the football ground by the BJP for a party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63827","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\/63827","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=63827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}