Biyuram Wahge

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Biyuram Wahge
Pakke-Kessang
Personal details
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Seba village, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party

Biyuram Wahge (born 1965) is an Indian politician from

Pakke-Kessang constituency
.

Personal life

Wahge was born in 1965 to Tali Wahge in Seba village of

Public Works Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh.[1]

Political career

Wahge is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is active in the politics of Arunachal Pradesh. He embarked on a career in politics after joining the youth wing of the BJP, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), in 2000 and held various positions in the organisation till 2008. He was the state general secretary of the BJYM from 2000 to 2003 and became its vice-president in 2003 and remained in this capacity till 2005. He became the president of the BJYM in 2005 and held this position till 2008 when he left the organisation for the parent body and became the treasurer of the latter. He was promoted to the rank of state general secretary of the BJP in 2014.[1]

Member of the Legislative Assembly

In the 2017 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Guwahati High Court declaring the election of Dolo in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election void.[2] Dolo also contested the bypoll from the same constituency but lost against Wahge.[3]

He was again entrusted by the party from Pakke-Kessang to contest the 2019 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He defeated the Congress candidate Atum Welly by a margin of 2,222 votes.[4] He donated his first salary as a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly to the party's state unit fund, becoming the first legislator in the history of Arunachal Pradesh to do so.[5]

BJP Arunachal Pradesh president

Wahge was elected as the president of the state unit of the BJP, BJP Arunachal Pradesh, on 17 January 2020 at Itanagar, succeeding Tapir Gao.[1] The election process was carried out under the supervision of party's returning officer for the organisational elections in the state, Roding Pertin. He received the certification of his election to the position of the president in the party's state organisational structure by the National General Secretary of the BJP, Anil Jain, in the presence of party's central election observer for the election of president in the state Vinod Sonkar, Education Minister Taba Tedir, Rural Works Department Minister Honchun Ngandam and other legislators and senior leaders of the state BJP.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Biyuram Wahge elected state BJP president". The Arunachal Times. Itanagar. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Ex-deputy CM of Arunachal Pradesh Kameng Dolo loses poll battle in Supreme Court". The Financial Express. New Delhi. Press Trust of India. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Bypolls results: TMC wins Sabang constituency, BJP leads in Sikandra, Pakke-Kessang and Likabali Assembly seats". Firstpost. 24 December 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Pakke-Kessang Assembly Election Results 2019". Oneindia. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b Lepcha, Irani Sonowal (17 January 2020). "Arunachal: Pakke Kessang MLA Biyuram Wahge elected state BJP chief". Itanagar: EastMojo. Retrieved 19 July 2020.