Role Indian Politician | Religion Donyi-Polo Name Gegong Apang | |
Born 8 July 1949 (age 75) ( 1949-07-08 ) Similar People Mukut Mithi, Dorjee Khandu, Jarbom Gamlin, Kalikho Pul | ||
Gegong apang record breaking chief minister at siang river festival in arunachal pradesh
Gegong Apang (born 8 July 1949) is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He was born to parents of Adi descent. He served as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 18 January 1980 to 19 January 1999 and again from August 2003 to April 2007, when he was replaced by Dorjee Khandu. Presently he has joined BJP.
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- Gegong apang record breaking chief minister at siang river festival in arunachal pradesh
- Gegong Apang lights candles to inaugurate Siang River Festival in Arunachal
- Political career
- Corruption arrest
- Personal life
- References
Gegong Apang lights candles to inaugurate Siang River Festival in Arunachal
Political career
Apang won assembly elections in 1978, 1980, 1984 from Yingkiong-pangin Assembly Constituency. Later he won assembly elections in 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2004 from Upper Siang district's Tuting-Yingkiong Assembly Constituency of Arunachal Pradesh, which is reserved for ST.
Apang was first elected as Chief Minister in 1980. He held the position until 1999, when he resigned following a no-confidence vote caused by a split in the ruling Congress Party.
He was elected leader of the newly formed United Democratic Front, a coalition of his own political party, the Arunachal Congress and several others, in 2003. Only a few months later, Apang and his supporting MLAs merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first time the BJP had ever ruled a state in north-eastern India. A few months after the BJP-ruled National Democratic Alliance lost power at the centre during 2004 elections, Apang returned to the Indian National Congress. In October, Congress won a majority in state assembly elections, with Apang as obtaining the Chief Minister position. He remained Chief Minister until 9 April 2007, when he resigned after pressure from other Congress MLAs led to the election of Dorjee Khandu as Congress Legislature Party leader.
Apang resigned from the primary and active membership of the Congress party on 17 February 2014 (party sources said) and joined the BJP on 20 February 2014.
Corruption arrest
Apang was arrested in August 2010 for alleged corruption relating to a 1000 crore private distribution system scam. Apang denied the charges and claimed they are politically motivated, though the government stated that the investigation was conducted independently and without political interference. The scam allegedly involved fradulent hill transport subsidy bills that were passed while Apang was Chief Minister without the required financial oversight.
Personal life
Apang comes from a place called Yingkiong in Arunachal Pradesh. He has three wives. Apang's fourth son was kidnapped at gun point in June 2008. Later that month he returned home safely, an unknown person to the Apang family but claimed to be of the same surname of Yadap Apang (Apang's wife) kidnapped him.