Congress wins speaker, deputy speaker’s posts in Arunachal

November 2nd, 2009 ITANAGAR -In Arunachal Pradesh, 11 ministers of the newly elected Congress led Government will be sworn in a ceremony today. Earlier on October 25, Dorjee Khandu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state.

October 24th, 2009 ITANAGAR - Dorjee Khandu is all set to become the chief minister of the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh for the second straight term with the newly elected Congress legislators Saturday unanimously electing him the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP). Khandu was the unanimous choice at the CLP meeting held in Itanagar.

October 22nd, 2009 ITANAGAR - The ruling Congress party in Arunachal Pradesh will form the next government for the second straight term, having already won 33 of 60 assembly seats as counting of votes progressed Thursday. Of the 46 results declared, the Congress party won 33 seats followed by Trinamool Congress with four seats, three by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), two by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and four by independents and candidates belonging to smaller regional parties.

October 21st, 2009 ITANAGAR - Counting of votes to pick a new 60-member legislature in Arunachal Pradesh began Thursday morning amid heavy security, officials said. The exercise started at 8 a.m.

October 15th, 2009 RANCHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday brushed aside Chinese claims over Arunachal Pradesh saying it was like any other Indian state. Gandhi made the remark when journalists wanted his reaction on China's protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, the northeastern Indian state which China claims as its own.

October 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - Reiterating India's stand, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh was a constitutional right as the state was an "integral part" of India. Asked for his reaction to China's objection over the prime minister's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Mukherjee said: "The prime minister can definitely visit the state for campaigning or any other purpose." "I too visited Arunachal Pradesh for campaigning and considered it as a legitimate right.

September 27th, 2009 ITANAGAR - Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu is third time lucky to have been elected unopposed to the 60-member state legislature -- a rare feat for a politician in India. The chief minister and two more ruling Congress members were declared elected unopposed -- sitting MLA Tsewang Dhondup from Tawang constituency and debutant Jambey Tashi from the Lumla seat.

September 1st, 2009 ITANAGAR - The ruling Congress party in the mountainous frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh seems set for another easy electoral victory in the absence of any opposition worth its name. Elections to the 60-member legislature are scheduled for Oct 13 with counting of votes on Oct 22.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Assembly polls in the three Congress-ruled states of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh will be held simultaneously Oct 13, the Election Commission announced Monday. The counting of votes will take place nine days later, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters here.

August 18th, 2009 ITANAGAR - A full team of the Election Commission will begin three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh from today. The visit assumes significance as elections for the 60-member Arunachal Assembly is due in October this year.

June 10th, 2009 ITANAGAR - Wreckage of the Indian Air Force AN-32 aircraft, which went missing in Arunachal Pradesh with 14 people on board, has been found. The IAF had began an aerial survey to trace the transport aircraft that went missing over the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.

June 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Nadendla Manohar of the ruling Congress party was Tuesday unanimously elected as deputy speaker of Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly. Manohar, son of former chief minister Nadendla Bhaskar Rao, represents Tenali constituency in Guntur district.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday decided to nominate senior tribal leader from Jharkhand, Karia Munda, for the post of deputy speaker in the Lok Sabha, which by tradition is offered to the opposition. BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters after a meeting of the party's parliamentary board that Munda had "vast parliamentary experience" and was among the senior MPs of the party.

March 26th, 2009 ITANAGAR - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader L K Advani is on a visit to Arunachal Pradesh today to boost his party's election prospects in the state. Advani will address a rally at Sepa in East Kameng District and meet with state party leaders and members of the parliamentary constituency.

February 22nd, 2009 ITANAGAR - The Arunachal Pradesh government has requested the Election Commission to conduct polling for the 60-member state assembly simultaneously with the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, a minister here said. 'The state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu at a meeting here late Saturday endorsed the decision of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) to prepone the assembly polls and hold them along with the Lok Sabha elections to save money, time and energy,' state Parliamentary Affairs Minister and government spokesman Tako Dabi said Sunday.