Wangki Lowang a politician from Bharatiya Janata Party is a Member of Legislative Assembly representing Namsang in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly since 1999. He was member of Indian National Congress until December 2015. He was one of 21 MLAs who broke from Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal. He became Speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in February 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4] Alo Libang is his deputy. [5]
In July 2016, he was one of the 30 MLAs of People's Party of Arunachal to defect back to Indian National Congress.
In December 2016, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party along with thirty two MLAs.
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Peoples Party of Arunachal is a regional political party in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It was founded in September 1977 by Bakin Pertin, Oken Lego and L. Wanglat as president, Vice President and General Secretary of the party. Tomo Riba resigned from PK Thungon government of Congress Party and joined PPA as Vice President of the Party. Currently, Kamen Ringu is the chairman of the party. They were in power in Arunachal until all of their MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress.
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On 20 February 1987, Arunachal Pradesh became a full fledged state of India.
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