CM Nabam Tuki accuses Governor of ‘misusing’ office

Bijay Sankar Bora

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Tribune News Service

Guwahati, December 15

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki is apparently at loggerheads with the Governor and has accused the Raj Bhavan in Itanagar of running a parallel government and turning it into BJP headquarters.

In a recent letter to Governor JP Rajkhowa, Tuki said: “It is an open secret, evident from the course of events, that the High Constitutional Office of the Governor is being misused by the state BJP and affiliated organisations as BJP headquarters — to prepare strategies and conspiracies towards dislodging the democratically elected government of the state. In the process, they are leaving no stone unturned to create an unbridgeable divide within the Congress Legislature Party in general, and in the ruling Congress party in particular.”

“Not only the activities at Raj Bhawan have been aimed at the Chief Minister, similar move and connivance are also being designed against the Speaker of the Arunachal Assembly, thereby, forcing the BJP MLAs to move a removal motion against the Speaker with the ultimate aim of engineering defection within the Congress Legislature Party and dislodging the popularly elected government in the state,” Tuki said in the letter.

The CM’s letter was a response to the order of Rajkhowa to summon an early session of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from December 16-18 instead of January 14-18, as notified earlier.

Meanwhile, Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Nabam Rebia has written to the Governor questioning the validity of his recommendation for conducting the session from December 16-18 and urged him to prevent constitutional crisis.

Government spokesperson Bamang Felix said the state Cabinet, too, has advised the Governor to recall and cancel the order.