Cape Town, South Africa, is not exactly a city most people associate with Arunachal Pradesh. But this week, the northeastern state has a seat at one of the world’s most prominent parliamentary gatherings — and it’s making its presence count. Assembly Speaker Tesam Pongte is leading a four-member delegation from Arunachal Pradesh to the 69th … Read more
When the Vice-President of India walks into your legislature and calls your state a “proud guardian” of the nation, that’s not routine political speech. That’s a statement. Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan was in Itanagar on Wednesday, September 9, to address a special session of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly — and he didn’t hold back. Arunachal … Read more
It’s not every day that a state pauses to look back at its own history — and this time, Arunachal Pradesh did it from inside its own assembly hall. On September 8, the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly convened its seventh special session of the eighth Assembly in Itanagar, and the occasion could not have been … Read more
The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly got straight down to business on Monday, passing three significant bills on the very first day of its Seventh Special Session — legislation that touches everything from small businesses on the ground to fire engines racing down the road to the land being planned around the state’s airports. Three bills … Read more
Promises made on the floor of the House aren’t just words — and the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly’s Government Assurances Committee made that very clear on Wednesday. The Committee That Won’t Look Away The Committee on Government Assurances (GAC), chaired by MLA Laisam Simai, held its fifth sitting of the Eighth Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly … Read more
