Itanagar: Congress has now lost another state in the North East. 42 Congress and 2 independent MLAs have now merged with the People's Party of Arunachal (PPA).
PPA is a regional party of Arunachal Pradesh and is part of the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) , a BJP led alliance of non congress parties.
Sources in the Chief Minister's office say that this shift is because Arunachal Pradesh is completely dependent on the central government for funds and thus being in Congress wasn't helping them much.
Defending the move MoS Home and BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh Kiran Rijiju told CNN-NEWS18 that 'judiciary can interpret the way it wants but reality is MLAs did not want to be with Congress.
It is important to mention here that NEDA led by its convenor Himanta Biswasarma wanted the rebel Congress MLAs led by Kalikho Pul to join merge with the BJP before the Supreme Court order reinstated Congress's Nabam Tuki govrrnment.
The state has seen 8 different governments in last 10 years, and three ,this year alone.
While PPA hasn't officially made it clear whether it will align with BJP or not . Sources say support of the 11 BJP MLAs in the House would surely be there with this government.
In the Assembly of 60, Congress had 47 MLAs, BJP 11 and two independent. Status of two Congress MLAs are yet to be decided as they put in their papers before the recent series of political developments that led to first Tuki government falling in January 2016, imposition of President's rule and installation of the late Kalikho Pul government for a short span.
Pul, a Congress MLA and had committed suicide last month, was forced to resign in July following a Supreme Court judgement.
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