{"id":68734,"date":"2019-06-05T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68734"},"modified":"2019-06-05T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:25:19","slug":"sona-takes-charge-as-legislative-assembly-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/05\/sona-takes-charge-as-legislative-assembly-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sona takes charge as legislative assembly speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 4:<\/strong> Mechuka MLA Pasang Dorjee Sona was elected as the speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAfter assuming charge of the 59-member house, Sona said he would be impartial during his tenure as the speaker and uphold the dignity and grace of the house.<br \/>\nHe also requested the members to help him run the house with dignity.<br \/>\nSona is a graduate from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University.<br \/>\nHe is an alumnus of the Hindu College and RK Mission School, Aalo.<br \/>\nBorn in 1972, Sona is the son of Pasang Wangchuk Sona, who had served as the deputy speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly from 1982 to 1985.<br \/>\nA keen photographer, Sona is credited with popularizing tourism in Mechuka.<br \/>\nChanglang North MLA Tesam Pongte was elected as the deputy speaker on the same day.<br \/>\nSon of Khodong Pongte, the 43-year-old deputy speaker is an alumnus of Rangfrah College in Changlang district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jun 4: Mechuka MLA Pasang Dorjee Sona was elected as the speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly on Tuesday. After assuming charge of the 59-member house, Sona said he would be impartial during his tenure as the speaker and uphold the dignity and grace of the house. He also requested the [&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-68734","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\/68734","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=68734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}