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BJP demands imposition of PR in Arunachal

By Correspondent

ITANAGAR, Oct 24 � The Bharatiya Janata Party has reiterated its demand for immediately resolving the political crisis in Arunachal Pradesh or else the Centre should invoke Article 356 (1) to bring stability in the frontier State.

The party today submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to this effect.

The saffron brigade�s fresh demand came barely a day after AICC-appointed three observers � Union Power Minister Shushil Kumar Shinde, former DoNER Minister B K Handique and Dr Dhani Ram Shandil, CWC member and in-charge of Arunachal � air-dashed to Itanagar and flew back to Delhi with the �report card� for onward submission to Congress president Sonia Gandhi after assessing the current political situation in the hill State.

BJP national general secretary and former MP from Arunachal Tapir Gao, in his memorandum to Dr Singh, said, �Arunachal Pradesh, being a sensitive border State facing frequent threat from China, needs a stable and transparent government. With this hope, the people of Arunachal have given their mandate to your party, Congress, for better development of the State and well being of its people but in reality, it remains a distant dream for them.�

�Consequent upon the demise of Dorjee Khandu in a tragic chopper crash, a new Chief Minister was appointed from your end. Since then internal feuds and infighting became rampant among the ruling party MLAs, including Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries who even went to the national capital and stay put there for last five months resulting in no governance back in State and lawlessness became order of the day.ting that the Congress high command�s indecisive and prolonged stance to resolve the leadership crisis was being viewed by the common mass as an �anti-people attitude� and a �mockery� of democracy, the BJP leader urged the PM to immediately resolve the party�s leadership crisis in the State or else invoke Art 356 (1) in the State till normalcy returns keeping the State Assembly in abeyance.

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