{"id":68361,"date":"2019-06-01T02:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68361"},"modified":"2019-06-01T02:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:51:58","slug":"supporters-demand-uncontested-election-of-chakat-aboh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/01\/supporters-demand-uncontested-election-of-chakat-aboh\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters demand uncontested election of\u00a0Chakat Aboh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>[ Tongam Rina ]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>KHONSA, May 31:<\/strong> Supporters of Tirong Aboh, the NPP MLA who was killed on 21 May along with 10 others, have appealed the political parties of Arunachal to ensure that his widow, Chakat Aboh, is elected uncontested in the bye-election for the Khonsa West assembly constituency.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t care which party she chooses, but she has to represent us in the legislative assembly. Right now she is in a trauma and unable to speak, but the people of the constituency want her as our representative,\u201d said a supporter.<br \/>\nMany people that this reporter spoke to shared the same sentiment.<br \/>\n\u201cIf an election is held, our fear that he was eliminated because of political reasons will be confirmed,\u201d said a supporter.<br \/>\nOne supporter said Chakat Aboh should join the BJP, \u201cso that the NSCN (IM) does not indulge in violence.\u201d<br \/>\nThe supporter, who squarely blamed the NSCN (IM) for the massacre, said the only way the Centre could lessen the pain of the supporters would be by making sure that Chakat Aboh is elected unopposed, and that the BJP does not field a candidate.<br \/>\n\u201cSince the Centre, which is ruled by the BJP, has signed a framework agreement with the NSCN (IM), it should not be a problem,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe supporters also appealed to NPP president Conrad Sangma and Arunachal NPP president Mutchu Mithi to negotiate with the central and state BJP leadership, so that no opposition candidate from the BJP is put up.<br \/>\nThe 11 April election was a straight contest between Aboh and the BJP\u2019s Phawang Lowang. Aboh won by a margin of 1055 votes.<br \/>\n\u201cRight now, we don\u2019t care about party. We just want to see that the legacy of Tirong Aboh continues,\u201d said another supporter.<br \/>\nSupporters of Tirong Aboh in Itanagar also reportedly met with the NPP leadership to chalk out further plan. The NPP refused to share the details, but apparently the party is willing to negotiate with other political parties not to field anyone in the bye-election.<br \/>\nAnother supporter said Aboh\u2019s main workers were killed with him, \u201cand if election is held, there will be more violence.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cChakat will win the election, but there will be more bloodshed,\u201d said another.<br \/>\n\u201cChief Minister Pema Khandu wrote a heartfelt condolence message to the widow of Tirong Aboh, but we have not heard from him again, so we do not know what is in his mind,\u201d said a supporter.<br \/>\n\u201cAs our chief minister, he should come here and reassure us and listen to our grievances,\u201d said another.<br \/>\nEven as the supporters say that Aboh\u2019s widow should be elected uncontested, it remains to be seen what step she herself takes next.<br \/>\nThe bye-election has to be held in the next six months.<br \/>\nTirong Aboh, along with 10 others, including his son and nephew, was killed on 21 May in Bogapani area, some 20 kilometres from Khonsa township. Aboh\u2019s entourage was coming from Dibrugarh in Assam when they were ambushed by suspected NSCN (IM) terrorists. (None of the people this reporter spoke to wanted to reveal their names.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Tongam Rina ] KHONSA, May 31: Supporters of Tirong Aboh, the NPP MLA who was killed on 21 May along with 10 others, have appealed the political parties of Arunachal to ensure that his widow, Chakat Aboh, is elected uncontested in the bye-election for the Khonsa West assembly constituency. \u201cWe don\u2019t care which party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68361","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\/68361","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=68361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}