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Arunachal ex-CM Gegong Apang quits BJP

NEW DELHI: Senior leader Gegong Apang, who was chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for 23 years, quit the BJP on Tuesday, saying the party was now a “platform to seek power”.

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Tribune News Service 
New Delhi, January 16
 

Senior leader Gegong Apang, who was chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for 23 years, quit the BJP on Tuesday, saying the party was now a “platform to seek power”. 

In a letter to party president Amit Shah and state unit president Tapir Gao, Apang said, “I am disappointed to see that the present-day BJP is no longer following the principles of Vajpayee ji. The party is now a platform to seek power; it serves a leadership which hates decentralisation of democratic decision-making; and the party founded by, for and of the cadre is only seeking to capture power.” 

He said the BJP had not got people’s mandate in 2014 in the state but “used every dirty trick of the trade” to make Kalikho Pul the CM. ' Despite an adverse Supreme Court ruling, a BJP government was reinstalled. Neither a proper investigation was done in Pul's suicide nor the present BJP leadership thought of morality and ethics by installing many more BJP governments in the northeast," said Apang.

He alleged that during the state-level executive committee meeting held on November 10 and 11 at Pasighat, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav did not allow many members and office-bearers to pou forth their views.

"The decision to put Pema Khandu's name as CM before the election is neither the norm nor the tradition that a cadre-based party like the BJP had followed. The BJP in the past has always asked the views of the legislature party members and then decided on leadership issues. Such undemocratic practices are not for the parties that grew under the leadership of Advani, Vajpayee, BS Shekawat, Kushabhau Thakre, Madan Lal Khurana, Rajmata Scindia and Sikandar Bakht," he wrote.

He served as CM of Arunachal Pradesh from January 18, 1980 to January 19, 1999 and again from August 2003 to April 2007.

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