{"id":95462,"date":"2020-03-04T01:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=95462"},"modified":"2020-03-04T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:29:51","slug":"apcc-reacts-sharply-to-cms-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/apcc-reacts-sharply-to-cms-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"APCC reacts sharply to CM&#8217;s criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 3<\/strong>: Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Tuesday reacted sharply to Chief Minister Pema Khandu&#8217;s recent criticism of the Congress Party, wherein he had said, &#8220;Congress Government had used Arunachal Pradesh and the NE states as money minting machine, but the BJP is putting priority to develop link surface communication of the area.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe chief minister made this statement during a public function in Mebo in East Siang district couple of days ago.<br \/>\nDescribing the statement as one of &#8216;best jokes&#8217; of the decade, APCC spokesperson Chera Taya reminded the chief minister that &#8220;whatever he is today, it is because of the Congress party.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;He is a &#8216;brainchild&#8217; of the Indian National Congress and his father Dorjee Khandu had become panchayat leader, MLA, minister and chief minister by contesting elections on the Congress ticket,&#8221; the party spokesperson said in a press statement.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is regrettable that he has been parroting the tone of the RSS, which has been remotely controlling the BJP-led government in the Centre,&#8221; Taya said.<br \/>\nStating that the BJP-led government in the Centre has done nothing significant for Arunachal, he said the greenfield airport at Hollongi, the Trans-Arunachal Highway, railway link to Naharlagun, TRIHMS etc were sanctioned during the UPA-2 Government led by then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Mar 3: Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Tuesday reacted sharply to Chief Minister Pema Khandu&#8217;s recent criticism of the Congress Party, wherein he had said, &#8220;Congress Government had used Arunachal Pradesh and the NE states as money minting machine, but the BJP is putting priority to develop link surface communication of the area.&#8221; [&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-95462","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\/95462","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=95462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}