{"id":92986,"date":"2020-02-10T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=92986"},"modified":"2020-02-10T01:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:35:22","slug":"unity-is-our-biggest-strength-ngandam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/unity-is-our-biggest-strength-ngandam\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity is our biggest strength: Ngandam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MECHUKHA, Feb 9:<\/strong> RWD Minister Honchun Ngandam said that unity is the biggest strength of the people of Arunachal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Despite being different in many ways, such as our culture and tradition, we the people of Arunachal Pradesh are united, and unity is our biggest strength,&#8221; the minister said while participating in Sonam Losar festival of the Memba community of Shi-Yomi district here on Sunday evening.<br \/>\nHe urged the Memba community to preserve and protect their age-old culture. &#8220;We cannot live without culture and it is the responsibility of each one of us to maintain it,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThanking the people of Mechukha, particularly Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona, for inviting the leaders of Tirap, Longding and Changlang, Ngandam said, &#8220;We will spread the beauty of Mechukha and goodness of its people in our places.&#8221;<br \/>\nFood &amp; Civil Supplies Minister Kamlung Mossang said, &#8220;We are totally mesmerized by the beauty of Mechukha and the hospitality of its people.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe exhorted the people, especially the youths of Mechukha, to stay away from drug addiction, saying it &#8220;has no cure.&#8221; He also urged the elders to curb the drug menace among the young generation.<br \/>\nEarlier, Speaker Sona thanked the guests for joining in the Losar celebration despite their busy schedules.<br \/>\nLater, the dignitaries released a book titled Rich Legacy of Memba, authored by Cheeden Goida and edited by Dr Mianzi Hazam. The book dwells on the political, socio-cultural and religious aspects of the Memba tribe, and their gradual development from the beginning to the present time.<br \/>\nDeputy Speaker Tesam Pongte, Koloriang MLA Lokam Tassar, and a host of other dignitaries were present on the occasion. (Speaker&#8217;s PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MECHUKHA, Feb 9: RWD Minister Honchun Ngandam said that unity is the biggest strength of the people of Arunachal. &#8220;Despite being different in many ways, such as our culture and tradition, we the people of Arunachal Pradesh are united, and unity is our biggest strength,&#8221; the minister said while participating in Sonam Losar festival of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92986","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\/92986","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=92986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}