Three candidates file nomination for Arunachal assembly polls

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hree candidates filed their papers today on the first day of filing of nominations for elections to the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh assembly on October 13.

While two NCP candidates filed nominations for Changlang(North) and Sagalee constituencies, one independent candidate submitted his papers for Itanagar seat.

Over 7 lakh voters are eligible to cast their vote.

While ruling Congress has decided to contest all the seats and released the names of 56 candidates so far, NCP has announced candidates for 30 seats and BJP for 17.

The NCP and BJP had earlier decided to contest 40 seats each.

With the ruling Congress having dropped a dozen of its sitting MLAs, NCP and BJP claimed many Congressmen were in touch with them seeking their tickets.

“Both the parties are considering their cases and hence the delay in releasing their final lists, which are expected to be out in a day or two,” their leaders claimed.

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Militants target Manipur governor house

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MPHAL: Tension gripped the Governor's House here on Friday after Kangleipak Communist Party, Military Council, (KCP-MC), rebels tried to trigger
a car-bomb explosion inside the high-security complex.

The rebels, who came in two cars, drove into the complex in a Maruti 800 fitted with bombs, sources said. They fled in the other vehicle parked outside. The car that was fitted with the bombs was detected around 1.30 pm. Raj Bhavan sources said the attackers, masquerading as social activists, managed to get the cars inside the complex on the plea of submitting a memorandum to the Governor.

Gurbachand Jagat was in office when the incident took place. The vehicle was parked a few metres away from his room, they added.

A statement issued by KCP-MC secretary (military affairs) Lanheiba Meitei said the operation was carried out by cadres of the fifth unit of Lanjaba Tangol (special demo team). The outfit accused the Governor of being the mastermind of state terrorism.

Though security guards didn't allow journalists to move inside the Raj Bhawan, some employees said two pipe-like bombs were fitted to the car.

Senior superintendent of police (Imphal West) L Kailun said the vehicle had explosives stuffed at the back. The explosives included three grenades, iron nails, bolts and two mobile handsets.

Manipur Police's bomb experts retrieved the explosives and took them to the state forensic laboratory at Pangei in greater Imphal for study, official sources said. A senior police officer said an FIR has been registered and investigation was on. In December last year, rebels lobbed two grenades at the Raj Bhavan.

Attacks on residences of VVIPs are not uncommon in Manipur. In the last two years, chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh's office-cum-bungalow had been attacked twice by militants. In March 2007, underground activists triggered a grenade explosion inside the Manipur Assembly complex. The Babupara VIP colony, which is close to the chief minister's bungalow, has also come under bomb attack.

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