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Pema Khandu takes oath as Arunachal CM today

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 17, 2016, at 07:03 pm

#Arunachal Pradesh floor test #Nabam Tuki resigns #Pema Khandu # Legislature Party leader #Pema Khandu oath

Itanagar, July 17 (IBNS): Pema Khandu, who was elected the leader of the Congress in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly on Saturday, took oath as Chief Minister on Sunday.

Khandu, 36, was part of a group of 30 party lawmakers who had rebelled against Nabam Tuki's leadership.

In a dramatic turn of event, Nabam Tuki on Saturday resigned as the Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Arunachal Pradesh to make room for Pema Khandu ahead of floor test.

Reports said even as a Supreme Court verdict breathed life into the Congress in Arunachal Pradesh to put it back to power, Tuki, the Chief Minister, had to resign to ensure the support of 20 rebel legislators who had sent feelers to come back to the party fold provided there is a change in leadership.

If these rebel lawmakers support the Congress, the party strength would increase to 35 in the 60-member Assembly to achieve a comfortable majority.

According to reports, Tuki himself offered to step down and proposed the name of his successor at a Legislature Party meeting held in the morning.

The Congress move came only few hours after Tuki on Friday afternoon had requested the Governor for 10 more days to take the floor test.

The Governor's directive for a floor test came a day after the Supreme Court, in a historic verdict on Wednesday, restored Tuki as Chief Minister, declaring as "illegal" the imposition of President's rule in the state in January.

Tuki's Government was thrown out of power after the Congress rebel, backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), staged a coup.

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