PPA demands simultaneous Lok Sabha & state assembly polls

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Press Trust of India Itanagar
Last Updated : Jan 08 2014 | 1:55 PM IST
The Peoples' Party of Arunachal (PPA), the lone regional political party of the state today advocated for conducting simultaneous polls to the parliament and the state legislative assembly.
"Since the ruling Congress government has miserably failed to deliver in all sectors, it is therefore, in the fitness of things that the assembly poll in the state due in October next be preponed and conducted with the parliamentary elections in April," party president Nikh Kamin said in a statement here today.
He further reasoned that holding of simultaneous polls would save lots of resources of the state as well as the nation and would also lessen the inconveniences caused both to the public and the electioneering machineries.
Pointing out the "weak" points of the ruling government, Kamin urged the party rank and file to work extra and be prepared for simultaneous polls.
He stated that the "high command based parties" like Congress and BJP neither have an Arunachal specific vision plan nor do they have a "consensus CM candidate".
"What they have in common is a stereotype and outdated set of ideas manufactured by high command in Delhi and their so called party ideologues," he added.
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First Published: Jan 08 2014 | 1:55 PM IST

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