NCP to contest 42 Assembly seats in Arunachal

ITANAGAR, August 24: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has decided to contest 42 of the total of 60 Assembly seats, besides both the two Lok Sabha seats in Arunachal Pradesh. Releasing the first list of 11 candidates for the state Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat here, the NCP state president, Talar Doye, said the new national political party was committed to fighting against "corruption and criminalisation of politics" in the state. The new party has also committed to working for the welfare of the people of the country as well as the Northeast, he said. The second list containing the names of 31 candidates will be released here on or before August 31, he said. Meanwhile, the Arunachal Congress led by former chief minister, Gegong Apang, today released its first list of 38 candidates. The Arunachal Congress Working Committee chairman, Gegong Apang, and working president, Kameng Bingy, jointly released the candidates' list. Apang was nominated from his home constituency of Tuting-Tingkiang, his wife Yadap Apang from Pasighat West and former state home minister, Dakloo Nidak, from Daporijo. In all, 13 members of the dissolved Assembly, including nine former ministers of the Gegong Apang ministry have been renominated.