Lok Sabha Elections 2024: All the political parties of the country have started preparing for the Lok Sabha elections. The dates can be announced at any time by the Election Commission. Meanwhile, if we talk about Arunachal Pradesh, there are two Lok Sabha seats here. One is the seat of Arunachal East and the other is Arunachal West. BJP has announced its candidates for two seats in Arunachal Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections. This time too, the BJP has again expressed confidence in sitting MPs Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao.

In the year 2019, the first phase of voting took place here on April 11. Last time also BJP had placed its bet on Kiran Rijiju from here. He won the elections by a margin of 1,74,843 votes. This time also BJP has fielded its old candidates only.

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Lok Sabha seat BJP Congress
  Arunachal Paschim Kiren Rijiju
 Arunachal East Tapir Gao
Political equation in Arunachal Pradesh

The major political players in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India are the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Indian National Congress, the Janata Dal (United), and the People's Party of Arunachal. The CM of Arunachal Pradesh is Pema Khandu, who is from the Bharatiya Janata Party. There is a BJP government in the state. There is a lot of turmoil between Congress and other parties in the state. Recently, before the Rajya Sabha elections, 4 MLAs from Congress and NPP have joined the BJP. There are 60 assembly seats in the state. In this, the BJP now has 53 MLAs. At the same time, some independent MLAs have supported the government from outside. Before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP is busy expanding its clan.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Ninong Jharing of the Congress Party had won from the former seat of Arunachal Pradesh. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju had won from Arunachal West in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rijiju got 2,25,796 votes, while his rival Congress candidate Nabam Tuki got only 50,953 votes. Whereas on Arunachal East seat, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Tapir Gao won the contest with a margin of 69,948 votes. Here Tapir Gao had defeated Congress candidate Lowangcha Wanglat. Tapir Gao got 1,53,883 votes while Lowangcha Wanglat got 83,935 votes. At present, Congress has not opened its cards here yet. After getting the ticket from Congress, the elections here can be exciting.

History of Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh was once a part of Assam. The British rulers included it in their state in 1838. After independence and before 1962, Arunachal Pradesh was known as the North East Frontier (NEFA). It was made a union territory in 1972. It was named Arunachal Pradesh. Subsequently, on 20 February 1987, Arunachal Pradesh was given full statehood as the 24th state of India. Arunachal Pradesh is called the rising state of the sun in India.