GUWAHATI: The BJP on Wednesday announced the names of its all 60 candidates for Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh.Assembly and Lok Sabha elections are being held simultaneously in this frontier state. The BJP list has 16 new faces and four women.Chief Minister Pema Khandu will contest from his pet Mukto seat while his deputy Chowna Mein will vie from Chowkham. Two other notable candidates are Assembly speaker Pasang Dorjee Sona and state BJP chief Biyuram Wahge. The BJP, which rules the state, denied ticket to three ministers and seven MLAs, including a rape-accused. Ministers not considered for ticket are Bamang Felix, Tage Taki and Tumke Bagra. The MLAs who missed the bus are Tsering Tashi, Jummun Ete Deori, Laisam Simai, Lokam Tassar, Kento Rina, Goruk Pordung and Gum Tayeng. Tassar was accused of raping a pregnant woman in 2022. The BJP’s list of candidates featured 11 MLAs who had won the 2019 elections on the tickets of other parties. Six of them are from Janata Dal (United), three from Congress and one each from Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP) and People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA).
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