Key Points
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has registered a thumping victory in Arunachal Pradesh, winning 46 of the 60 seats in the state legislative assembly and nearly wiping out the Congress, which dominated the states political landscape until a decade ago...
Led by Pema Khandu, who is set to retain his position as chief minister for the third term, the BJP had bagged 10 seats unopposed on 30 March itself, as the Opposition did not field any candidates in those constituencies...
The BJP secured 54.57% of the total votes cast in Arunachal...
Former chief minister Nabam Tuki, the sole Congress MLA left after defections, was the partys Lok Sabha candidate from the Arunachal West seat this time against BJPs Kiren Rijiju...
The credit for BJPs comprehensive victory, second time on the trot, will go to Khandu, who had engineered a major defection in the Congress in September 2016, walking away with 43 MLAs to the newly formed Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA)...
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