BJP to contest 30 seats in Arunachal Pradesh

September 23, 2009 02:56 pm | Updated 02:56 pm IST - Itanagar

The Opposition BJP, which has no representative in the 60-member outgoing Arunachal Pradesh assembly, had decided to contest only 30 seats in October 13 assembly elections.

Though the party had earlier announced that it would contest 50 seats, BJP state General Secretary said the party would contest only 30.

The party had won nine seats in the 2004 assembly elections, but all legislators including the Leader of the Opposition Kameng Dolo, defected to ruling Congress in 2007.

Recently, former Lok Sabha member Kiren Rijiju, a very popular leader projected by BJP its chief ministerial candidate, also crossed over to Congress, leaving the party in the lurch.

The BJP was expecting large scale desertion of Congress legislators denied ticket, but seven of them preferred to contest on Trinamool Congress ticket and one on NCP ticket.

BJP which is yet to release the final list though only two days are left for filing nomination said 15 names have been released and another list will be released by Thursday morning.

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