NCP, Trinamool to be treated as opposition parties in Arunachal: Congress

The ruling Congress in Arunachal Pradesh today described its UPA allies at the centre as opposition parties in the state while expressing unhappiness over alleged Trinamool Comgress campaigning that it had the blessing of Sonia Gandhi for the October 13 assembly elections.
    
"The Congress will thwart all attempts by NCP and Trinamool Congress to project themselves as enjoying the patronage of Sonia Gandhi while opposing official Congress nominees," AICC general secretary in charge of Arunachal Pradesh and Union minister V Narayansami said.

"Both the parties are opposition parties just like the BJP and the People's Party of Arunachal and Congress has no pre-poll alliance with either of them," he told reporters
here. Narayansami said none of their MLAs would be inducted into Congress fold if elected and claimed that his party would get a thumping majority.

Trinamool Congress is contesting in 26 seats while the NCP has fielded candidates in 36 and is supporting five other candidates. The BJP is contesting in 18 seats. The state has a 60-member House which has no opposition member. APCC president Nabam Tuki, CWC member and former Goa chief minister Luzino Falerio and Union minister of state for water resources Vincent Palla were also present on the occasion.
     
Dorjee Khandu and two other Congress candidates have been declared elected unopposed.