{"id":90724,"date":"2020-01-18T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90724"},"modified":"2020-01-18T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T20:43:08","slug":"biyuram-wahge-elected-state-bjp-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/18\/biyuram-wahge-elected-state-bjp-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Biyuram Wahge elected state BJP president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 17:<\/strong> Pakke-Kessang MLA and senior party ideologue Biyuram Wahge has been elected as the new state BJP president. He succeeds Tapir Gao.<br \/>\nWahge&#8217;s name was announced by the party&#8217;s national general secretary Anil Jain, who is also the party&#8217;s election in-charge for Arunachal. Jain along with Lok Sabha member Vinod Sarkar had been sent as the observers of the party&#8217;s state election.<br \/>\nBorn in 1965 to Tali Wahge, in Seba village in East Kameng district, Biyuram Wahge did his schooling in Seppa and Bomdila, and later settled down in Seijosa, in Pakke-Kessang district. He is the younger brother of PWD Western Zone CE Katung Wahge.<br \/>\nBiyuram Wahge has served the state BJP in distinct capacities since 2000. He was the state BJYM general secretary from 2000-03, the state BJYM vice-president from 2003-05, and the state BJYM president from 2005-08. He went on to become the state BJP&#8217;s treasurer in 2008, and the party&#8217;s state general secretary in 2014. Wahge got elected as MLA from Pakke-Kessang constituency in the 2017 bye-election, after then incumbent MLA Kameng Dolo&#8217;s seat was vacated by a high court ruling.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the media after his election, Wahge said he has been serving the BJP in Arunachal from an early stage.<br \/>\n&#8220;Initially, no one wanted to take any post in the BJP. Today we are fighting for mandal posts. That&#8217;s how we saw our growth. We were only 11 people, including late Kangir Jamoh, Kiren Rijiju, and Tapir Gao,&#8221; he said, and expressed happiness over the party&#8217;s tremendous growth.<br \/>\n&#8220;I thank my party colleagues for keeping faith in me. To strengthen the party is my top priority,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nOn being asked whether there were many frontrunners for the party president&#8217;s post, Waghe responded: &#8220;It implies that the BJP is going strong. It doesn&#8217;t, however, mean that there is division in the party.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Whoever works for the party should be given a fair chance, without distinguishing between new and old members,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jan 17: Pakke-Kessang MLA and senior party ideologue Biyuram Wahge has been elected as the new state BJP president. He succeeds Tapir Gao. Wahge&#8217;s name was announced by the party&#8217;s national general secretary Anil Jain, who is also the party&#8217;s election in-charge for Arunachal. Jain along with Lok Sabha member Vinod Sarkar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90724","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\/90724","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=90724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}