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Senior BJP person Tai Tagak was connected Thursday (June 11, 2026) declared elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha spot from Arunachal Pradesh aft the withdrawal play for nominations ended with nary different campaigner successful the fray.
Returning officer-cum-secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Tadar Meena, formally declared Tagak elected pursuing the adjacent of the candidature withdrawal play astatine 3 p.m.
Since lone 1 information had been filed and nary withdrawal was made earlier the stipulated deadline, the declaration was issued nether the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, and the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, a communique from the Assembly secretariat said.
The authoritative certificate of predetermination was handed implicit to the recently elected MP astatine a relation held astatine Nokmey Namati Hall of the Assembly.
The ceremonial was attended by State main electoral officer-cum-observer Pawan Kumar Sain, Joint CEO Liken Koyu, adjunct returning serviceman Longman Ronrang, and elder BJP leaders.
Later, Mr. Tagak called connected Speaker Tesam Pongte, who congratulated him connected his unopposed predetermination to the assembly of states and wished him occurrence successful his caller responsibilities.
The predetermination was necessitated arsenic the word of the incumbent Rajya Sabha member, Nabam Rebia, is scheduled to extremity connected June 23.
A seasoned BJP functionary, 54-year-old Mr. Tagak joined the enactment connected September 9, 1995, aft serving arsenic a portion organiser of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) successful Arunachal Pradesh from 1989.
He subsequently held respective cardinal organisational positions, including authorities wide caput and spokesperson, earlier becoming the authorities BJP president successful February 2013.
During his tenure arsenic authorities BJP president from 2013 to 2015, the enactment registered important electoral gains, winning 11 Assembly seats and the Arunachal West Lok Sabha constituency portion securing astir 31 per cent of the ballot share.
He is besides credited with playing a cardinal relation successful the governmental developments that led to the BJP forming the authorities successful Arunachal Pradesh for the archetypal clip successful 2016.
Hailing from Peel colony nether Sangram ellipse successful Kurung Kumey district, Mr. Tagak was known arsenic a societal idiosyncratic and taste activistic earlier entering progressive politics.
He has besides served 2 presumption arsenic advisor to the main minister.
Speaking aft his election, Mr. Tagak said the BJP had honoured a elemental grassroots idiosyncratic and that his enactment conveyed a beardown connection that hard work, sacrifice, dedication and teamwork are recognised successful the party.
Recalling his humble beginnings, helium said helium had worked arsenic a kid labourer fetching drinking h2o for labourers for Rs 2 a time successful 1981-82 and aboriginal arsenic a regular wage idiosyncratic during schoolhouse vacations for ₹5 a day.
He said his information reflected the party's religion successful dedicated workers and was successful enactment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's imaginativeness of promoting radical from non-political backgrounds to lend to the gathering of a "Viksit Bharat".
