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2. Nabam Tuki – PWD and UD
3. Jarbom Gamlin – Parliamentary Affairs and Power (Electrical)
4. Setong Sena – Finance and Lottery
5. Kalikho Pul – RWD and Tax and Excise
6. Bosiram Siram – Education
7. Chowna Mein – PHED
8. Tanga Byaling – Health
9. Atum Welly – WRD
10. Takar Marde – RD and Panchayat
11. Hongchun Ngandam – Horticulture

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He is set to become Chief Minister for second term once a formal nod is given by the party president.

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The reasons (source -The Arunachal Times):

1. The state has seen deteriorating law and order problem, nepotisms and corruption reaching its peak under his regime.
2. His close affinity with the spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his cultural and social similarity and his deep concerned for the Tibetan cause.
3. Highest rate of corruption especially in department of Hydropower and civil supply during his regime and
4. Repeated Chinese claim during his regime.

Well, what do you think about their allegations?

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The commotion at twin-township of capital complex, according to report appearing in today’s edition of The Arunachal Times, was resultant of the outcome of result for the candidature of Itanagar constituency. The supporters of losing party i.e., INC went on rampage threatening the shops at Naharlagun, Itanagar and Ganga to down their shutters moving in a group in about 10 vehicles. The reporter, who was witness to the entire mayhem at Akashdeep complex at Itanagar, put their act akin to the act of ‘Taliban’.

Group of people in around 10 vehicles zooms past market area and asks all the shops to close their shutters. In helter-skelter everybody close shops and run for the cover. Well, this is not the scene from any Hindi Movie; this was the scene at Akashdeep Market in central Itanagar on Friday.

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Capital Complex police have arrested 7 people in this regard and all have been put behind the bar.

According to the police all the detained men are supporters of Indian National Congress (INC) and further investigation is on.

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Those guys sitting in a car and shouting all shops to close, was so much behaving like way Taliban often does in Afghanistan. They had no regards for law of the state and were having fun by creating terror.

-The Arunachal Times.

Now I wonder, why was Cr.PC 144 withdrawn just after the counting day by the district administration when it was clamped anticipating disturbance owing to outcome of result of Itanagar constituency? Had it been enforced for another couple of days, I guess we would have not witnessed the commotion as we witnessed yesterday; luckily no loss of life or property was reported.

Also it has made me wonder, why can’t the losing party or it’s supporter take the defeat gracefully?

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I’d also like to request readers of Arunachal Diary to help Arunachal Diary in updation of results live by putting in the data of results from their constituency in the comments section below.

In the meantime Arunachal Diary has closed the poll on “Which Party would form the next government in Arunachal Pradesh?” the result of which is follows:

Majority of people voted feels that INC would be back in power.

Let’s see if the people’s prediction tally’s with the actual result.

Result Arunachal Assembly Election-2009-Live Update

1. INC-Leading in 8 seats. (Already won -3)
2. NCP – 0
3. AITC- 0
4. BJP – 0
5. Others – 0

Update: 9.22 am

1. INC – Leading in 15 seats
2. NCP- 0
3. BJP- 0
4. Others- 1

Update: 10.27 am

Karikho Kri and Chow Tewa Mein both INC candidate wins from Tezu and Chowkham Assembly Constituency respectively.

Update: 10.33 am

Nacho- Tanga Byaling, INC wins

Liromoba – Jarbom Gamlin INC wins

Sagalee- Nabam Tuki, INC wins

Panging-Tapang Taloh, INC wins

Hayuliang- Kalikho Pul, INC wins

Namsang- Wangki Lowang, INC wins

Update: Phurpa Tsering, PPA wins from Dirang, Kumar Waii, INC wins from Bameng, Jarbom Gamlin INC wins from Liromoba, J.K. Panggeng INC wins from Mariyang-Geku

Update: 10.54 am

Khamta Lowang, AITC wins from Khonsa

Update: 12.02 pm

List of Winning Candidates- Updated: 1930 hrs

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Taking advantage of Information Technology in this poorly connected state, the Election Office of two districts of Arunachal Pradesh, namely West Kameng and Tirap was able to conduct peaceful polling in polling stations which had historical precedence of disturbance during the poll process. It was reported that West Kameng District Election Office led by Swati Sharma and Tirap District Election Office led by Ankur Garg had installed cameras in selected hyper-sensitive polling stations and the entire poll process was webcast. The result; the poll process was conducted peacefully without any untoward incidence in these hyper-sensitive polling stations, thanks to the creativity of these two dynamic officers.

The District Election Office led by a young IAS officer Swati Sharma had a trial during the counting process of the last Parliamentary elections. The idea took off from there. Sharma said that critical and hypersensitive polling booths were webcast.

Even if anyone had an intention to disrupt the poll process, they were discouraged by the cameras which were feeding it live across the world.

Posted in a district which has been in news for all the wrong reasons, Tirap DC Ankur Garg made use of electronic connectivity to compensate for lack of road connectivity, literally.

The webcast was for hyper sensitive stations which had a history related to crowd control. Thanks to webcast, there was no repeat of history.

The voters were exceptionally well behaved, and in certain cases even very well dressed since they knew they were being telecast all over the world, quipped Garg.

In a state, where transparency is forgotten most of the time, Webcast was good reminder. The entire polling process was for all to see.

Source-The Arunachal Times

The other incident where there was display of a very different kind of creativity at two polling stations of 17 Ziro-Hapoli constituency, namely Hari-C and Hija, has left me totally dumbstruck.

It was reported that in these two polling stations the balloting unit was ‘creatively’ tampered with. A randomized name likely to favor their candidate was reportedly pasted over the names appearing in ballot unit so that whenever voters pressed the button of the candidate (the probable candidate likely to get majority of votes in that particular polling station) on balloting unit, the votes would be registered in their candidates favor. I would say, a very creative way to manipulate the result based on assumption that the majority of voters of that particular polling station would vote for a particular candidate. But how on earth they came to a definite conclusion that a particular candidate would get majority of votes in that particular polling station?

This discrepancy was noticed at Hari-C polling station when some 30 votes or so had been cast and the polling officials were deciding to continue the poll with new EVM when supporter of Trinamool Congress along with the party candidate stormed the polling booth and damaged the EVM. The result; repoll has been ordered to the much agony of the voters. Similar display of creativity was seen at Hija Polling station and the discrepancy was noticed quite late demanding repolling.

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I wonder what would be Beijing’s reaction to this visit considering the resentment shown by Beijing when he visited Arunachal the last time.

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Take for example the case of NETV that we reported earlier. The news channel in order to sensationalize the case, reported that National Liberation Front of Taniland (NLFT) is an ‘Apatani’ underground outfit fighting for separate homeland for Apatani Community. That, their headquarter is based at Ziro-the primary dwelling place of Apatani community, which is some 15 kms from China border. The report-all farce and based on concocted facts.

Now, it is turn of yet another news channel, Times Now, who I presume, in their over-zealousness to report on recent Chinese incursion into Indian territory had presented a report based on concocted facts to the viewers.

How do I say that?

Well, let’s first watch the Times Now news report on Chinese incursion into Sikkim and Arunachal embedded below and dissect it bit by bit to see if the report is based on facts or concocted facts:

Here, I would not comment on report by Sambit Pal on Chinese incursion into Sikkim and would concentrate on report on Arunachal rather.

First let’s see the transcriptions of interviews carried out with the local residents of so-called border-village Poma of Arunachal Pradesh by correspondent Jabaakhi Borthakur to substantiate that Chinese had indeed transgressed into Arunachal Pradesh.

Transcriptions:

Resident 1: Haan..haan hum khud dekha hai, woh log border cross karke idhar aa gaya hai.

Yes..yes..I’ve seen it by myself that they (Chinese) have crossed the border and reached here (Arunachal).

Resident 2: China Arunachal ko wanted hai woh log chahiye bolta hai NA..to survey karne ke liye… thoda CID karne ke liye aata ho[(ga)…muffled]..

Arunachal is wanted by China and they (China) says they want (Arunachal)..so, to survey..to carry out espionage [they might have come..]

Resident 3: China yahan aa jayega toh na..apna nahin hai toh freedom nahin milega na

If Chinese occupies Arunachal..there would be no freedom as they are not one of us (ours).

Dissection:

Except for the Resident 1, the other residents doesn’t seem to say that they have indeed seen Chinese crossing the border. Their statement is based on speculation rather than the fact. So, is the statement of one so-called resident of border village enough to substantiate their claim that Chinese has indeed made inroad into Arunachal Pradesh?

Now, coming to so-called Resident1 of border village, he seem to be non-local and from his accent he seem more of Assamese than an Arunachalee. So, how on earth he said for sure that he has seen Chinese entering into Arunachal Pradesh? Was he tutored to say that?

In fact, the whole interview with locals seemed stage managed to put the Channels point of view on Chinese incursion because the so-called border village ‘Poma’ is no where near ‘Mc Mohan Line’ but rather an hour drive from state capital Itanagar, which is closer to Assam than to LAC. If you look at the video carefully, you can see the location of Poma Village marked in Arunachal Pradesh Map.

Conclusion

From the report, it seem it was never based on the facts but was prepared on concocted facts to put channels point of view on Chinese incursion into Arunachal Pradesh. How did the correspondent Jabaakhi Borthakur deduced from interview with the residents of village bordering Assam rather than China that Chinese has made inroad into Indian territory? I’d have appreciated her and the channel had she gone to the border areas and took stock of the real situation before presenting the viewers with such insensible report which, as National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan has put it, could lead to unwarranted incident or accident that could create problems with the neighbour.

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Well, it seems Dorjee Khandu has suggested in a recent interview to Taro Chatung that he would retire from active politics after 5 years.

Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, in an interview said that he would retire from active politics after five years, ruling out chances to stand for the 2014 Assembly Election. He said that he wanted to quit from active politics but he made up his mind to continue in order to implement the Prime Minister Mega Package and devote some more time for the development of the state.

-Source The Arunachal Times.

But what if after five years, implementation of Prime Minister Mega Package is not complete and say, if center decides to give another mega-mega package to the state, would then his decision to retire from active politics change?

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