{"id":64096,"date":"2019-04-09T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=64096"},"modified":"2019-04-09T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:00:31","slug":"its-anybodys-game-in-bordumsa-diyun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/its-anybodys-game-in-bordumsa-diyun\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s game in Bordumsa-Diyun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Taba Ajum ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 8:<\/strong> In the coming assembly election, one of the constituencies where things might get interesting is Bordumsa-Diyun, which is the only unreserved seat in the state&#8217;s 60-member legislative assembly.<br \/>\nAltogether 10 candidates are in the fray for the constituency, including independent candidate Yari Tok, who is the youngest in this year&#8217;s assembly election. Aged just 25 years, Tok is a native of Mebiaso village in Sangdupota circle of Papum Pare district. She is contesting an election for the first time.<br \/>\nNikh Kamin of the National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) is the sitting Bordumsa-Diyun MLA.<br \/>\nThe other candidates are Jawra Maio (BJP), Joseph Kishan (INC), Sijen Thakko (PPA), Dana Takio (JD-U), Pike Pulu (JD-S), Upendra Chandra Deori (All Indians Party), Samlung Mossang (independent) and Bidya Sankar Prasad (independent).<br \/>\nThough it is an unreserved seat, so far the non-APSTs have kept away from contesting election for Bordumsa-Diyun. However, this time three non-APST candidates are in the fray. The Congress&#8217; candidate, Joseph Kisan, is from the Adivasi community, while Upen Chandra Deori is from the Deori community. The third candidate, Bidya Sankar Prasad, is of Bihari origin but is married to a tribal Arunachalee woman and is settled in Ningroo Adi village in Namsai district.<br \/>\nPrasad is a small-time businessman, but is widely known in Namsai area. Speaking to this daily, he said, &#8220;My wife is an Arunachalee tribal and even my daughter-in-law is a local tribal girl. I have been living in the state since the NEFA days and have actively participated in the political activities.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe alleged that most of the leaders, after winning the election, forget about the problems of the people of the area and stay in Itanagar.<br \/>\nNikh Kamin had once represented the Yachuli assembly constituency in Lower Subansiri district, and shifted to Bordumsa-Diyun in 2014. He had defeated former minister and one of the political heavyweights of eastern Arunachal, CC Singpho, in a surprise result.<br \/>\nKamin&#8217;s victory seems to have inspired several other candidates from the rest of the state to try their luck in Bordumsa-Diyun. The constituency has a large concentration of non-APST voters, with Adivasis and Chakma refugees forming a major chunk of the electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Taba Ajum ] ITANAGAR, Apr 8: In the coming assembly election, one of the constituencies where things might get interesting is Bordumsa-Diyun, which is the only unreserved seat in the state&#8217;s 60-member legislative assembly. Altogether 10 candidates are in the fray for the constituency, including independent candidate Yari Tok, who is the youngest in [&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-64096","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\/64096","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=64096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}