Congress MLAs worried

GUWAHATI, Sept 20: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) named its candidates for the Arunachal Assembly elections yesterday. As many as 12 sitting MLAs were denied party tickets and included new faces in their places. This development has kept a number of Asom Congress MLAs, especially those who are in the anti-Gogoi lobby and the 25 MLAs who had moved the Chief Minister recently with signature campaign seeking reshuffle of the ministry, are a worried lot as are apprehensive of the fact that they may face the same fate in the 2011 Assembly elections in the State. In the 2006 Assembly elections in the State also, a number of then sitting MLAs, including Dileswar Tanti, Hemprakash Narayan, Pankaj Bora, Hemanta Talukdar and Mithius Tudu were denied party tickets by the Congress. In the recently held Lok Sabha elections too, the party denied tickets to a number of sitting MPs, including some of Asom. THE SENTINEL