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8 Arunachal BJP MLAs join Congress

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Guwahati: The Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a setback in Arunachal Pradesh when all but one of its nine legislators defected to the ruling Congress on Monday. With this, the Congress strength has increased to 41 in the 60-member House.

The eight legislators led by Kameng Dolo met Speaker Setong Sena and informed him that they quit the BJP. At their request, he recognised them as Congress members as they constituted more than two-thirds of the total Opposition strength. Mr. Dolo and other BJP leaders stayed back in the party even when Gegong Apang, who headed the first BJP Government in the State as well as in the northeast, returned to the Congress fold just before the 2004 Assembly polls.

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