{"id":65105,"date":"2019-04-21T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=65105"},"modified":"2019-04-21T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:28:08","slug":"apang-meets-ceo-seeking-re-polling-in-singging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/apang-meets-ceo-seeking-re-polling-in-singging\/","title":{"rendered":"Apang meets CEO, seeking re-polling in Singging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 20:<\/strong> Alleging that polling was not conducted &#8220;democratically and properly&#8221; in Singging village under the Tuting-Yingkiong assembly constituency in Upper Siang district, Janata Dal (Secular) candidate and former chief minister Gegong Apang on Saturday demanded re-polling in Singging.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, Apang met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Kaling Tayeng and Additional CEO Kanki Darang here and, along with party president Rokom Apang and others, submitted a letter in this regard.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am to inform you that polling at Singging village under Tuting-Yingkiong assembly constituency was not conducted democratically and properly. The polling was conducted under great threat by BJP workers. I request you to take immediate action and give immediate order for re-polling of assembly and parliamentary elections at Singging village for safe, free and fair election,&#8221; the letter read.<br \/>\nLater, addressing reporters at the Nirvachan Bhavan premises here, the former CM said he had made a similar request to the returning officer (RO) of Upper Siang, who then ordered the assistant RO of Tuting-Yingkiong to investigate the matter.<br \/>\nApang, however, said the investigation was not satisfactory.<br \/>\n&#8220;With no alternative, I have come here to the CEO&#8217;s office. I met the CEO and additional CEO. After this, the only alternative left is to approach the court,&#8221; he told reporters soon after meeting the poll panel officials.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the ACEO informed, &#8220;Apang has submitted a representation seeking re-poll in Singging. We have forwarded his complaint to the Yingkiong DEO. Necessary action can be initiated after we receive a report from the DEO.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Apr 20: Alleging that polling was not conducted &#8220;democratically and properly&#8221; in Singging village under the Tuting-Yingkiong assembly constituency in Upper Siang district, Janata Dal (Secular) candidate and former chief minister Gegong Apang on Saturday demanded re-polling in Singging. On Saturday, Apang met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Kaling Tayeng and Additional CEO Kanki Darang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65105","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\/65105","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=65105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}