Kalikho Pul

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Kalikho Pul, 2014

Kalikho Pul (born July 20, 1969 in Walla, near Hawai , Arunachal Pradesh ( India ); † August 9, 2016 in Itanagar , Arunachal Pradesh) was a politician in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. From February 19, 2016 to July 13, 2016, he was Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh .

Life

Khalikho Pul belongs to the Tibetan -Burmese ethnic group of the Kaman-Mishmi . He was born in a small village in the Hawai District, Anjaw District, east of Arunachal Pradesh, and attended Indira Gandhi Government College in Tezu, Lohit District . He has five sons with his wife, Dangwimsai Pul.

Pul began his political career in the Congress Party in the 1980s . In the elections to the parliament of Arunachal Pradesh he was elected as a member of the Congress Party in the constituency 45-Hayuliang in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 . In various governments of the Congress Party, he served as State Secretary or Minister with various areas of responsibility (energy, finance, land distribution, health care, fisheries, justice, family and social policy, tribal affairs).

Government crisis in Arunachal Pradesh and election as Chief Minister

In December 2015, there was a government crisis in Arunachal Pradesh after 14 members of the 42-member Congress group opposed the ruling Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and voted together with the opposition. The Tuki government had thus lost its majority in parliament. Kalikho Pul was elected leader of the dissident faction. On January 26, 2016, the Tuki government was suspended by the governor and the state was placed under the control of the central government ( president's rule ) until February 19, 2016 . On February 19, Pul was elected the ninth Chief Minister in Arunachal Pradesh history, with the support of 18 former congressmen, 11 BJP MPs and two independents. Two weeks after the election, Pul and 29 Congress Party dissidents joined the regional People's Party of Arunachal (PPA).

On July 13, the Supreme Court of India ruled the governor's actions unlawful. He had exceeded his competencies by placing the state under president's rule . The result of the court ruling was that the deposed Chief Minister Nabam Tuki was reinstated in his office. A few hours before a planned vote of confidence in the parliament of Arunachal Pradesh, however, the controversial Tuki resigned from his office and on July 16, 2016, the compromise candidate Pema Khandu (Congress Party) won the vote of confidence and became the new Chief Minister. Most of the dissidents from the Congress Party returned to the Congress Party.

On August 9, 2016, Kalikho Pul was found hanged in his office. The police assumed a suicide .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pul was Arunachal's longest serving finance minister. The Times of India, February 21, 2016, accessed May 25, 2016 .
  2. ^ Kalikho Pul becomes the Chief Minister of Arunachal. (No longer available online.) The Arunachal Times, February 20, 2016, archived from the original on May 25, 2016 ; accessed on May 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arunachaltimes.in
  3. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on May 25, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ↑ Samudra Gupta Kashyap: Arunachal Pradesh gets a new CM, Kalikho Pul sworn in at night. The Indian Express, February 20, 2016, accessed May 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Arunachal Chief Minister Kalikho Pul, 29 Congress MLAs join PPA. dnaindia.com, March 3, 2015, accessed May 25, 2016 .
  6. ^ Arunachal Pradesh verdict: The timeline of the case so far. The Indian Express, July 13, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ As it happened: Tuki resigns, Khandu stakes claim, Governor yet to respond. The Hindu, July 17, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Tension grips Arunachal Pradesh after former CM Kalikho Pul's suicide. firstpost.com, August 9, 2016, accessed August 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pul, Kalikho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Walla at Hawai , Arunachal Pradesh , India
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2016
Place of death Itanagar , Arunachal Pradesh