People's Party of Arunachal

People's Party of Arunachal
PresidentKahfa Bengia
FounderBakin Pertin
Founded10 April 1977 (47 years ago) (1977-04-10)
HeadquartersMowb-II, Near AG office Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
IdeologyRegionalism
Anti-CAA[1]
ECI StatusState Party[2]
AllianceNDA (2016–2018)(2024 till date)
Seats in Lok Sabha
0 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in Arunachal Pradesh
2 / 60
Election symbol
Maize
Website
People's Party of Arunachal

Peoples Party of Arunachal is a regional political party in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It was founded in September 1977 by Bakin Pertin, Oken Lego and L. Wanglat as president, Vice President and General Secretary of the party. Tomo Riba resigned from PK Thungon government of Congress Party and joined PPA as Vice President of the Party. Currently, Kamen Ringu is the chairman of the party. They were in power in Arunachal until all of their MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress.

On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party.

  1. ^ "Statehood Act at core of PPA's manifesto | the Arunachal Times". 31 March 2019.
  2. ^ "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification 1349 Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.