ITANAGAR Seven BJP candidates, including Chief Minister Pema Khandu, are likely to win the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections without a contest, election
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and four other BJP candidates are set to get elected as MLAs unopposed as no other candidate has filed nomination from their assembly seats on the last day of filing papers on Wednesday.
The BJP formed its first elected government in Arunachal Pradesh in 2019, even as Chief Minister Khandu had formed the BJP government in 2016 after he, along with several MLAs, left the Congress for the People s Party of Arunachal and then, joined the BJP.
The Lok Sabha and the assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh will be held simultaneously on April 19, for which the process of filing nominations ended this evening, he said.
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