Arunachal Min asks Guv to release full footage of spat

Days after Arunachal Pradesh Governor JP Rajkhowa accused him of misbehaving, education minister Tapang Taloh on Sunday alleged that the Governor had provoked him with abuses and asked him to release footage of the entire December 15 episode.

“It is very unfortunate that the constitutional head of the state had released the last portion of the footage to the electronic media to malign my hard earned image. I request him to release the whole footage so that people can judge,” Taloh told reporters at the Arunachal Press Club here.

The footage circulated to the media highlighted how Taloh had a spat with the Governor during an argument when Chief Minister Nabam Tuki along with his council of ministers went to meet him at the Raj Bhawan with a request to review his decision of preponing the Assembly session to December 16, instead of January 14, 2016. 

“When we entered the Raj Bhawan, we were checked at the entrance like common people. Despite our repeated pleas, the Governor, instead of listening to our appeals, asked us to approach any court of the law saying he had already passed his order,” the minister flanked by Home Minister Tanga Byaling and Parliamentary secretary Nyamar Karbak said.

Alleging that the Guv had provoked him with abuses, Taloh said Rajkhowa did not even reply to questions put by the Chief Minister on the reasons that compelled him to prepone the Assembly session.