Biyuram Wahge (born 1965) is an Indian politician from

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. He is a member of the

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and the president of state's BJP unit. He is a member of the

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representing Pakke-Kessang constituency.

Personal life

Wahge was born in 1965 to Tali Wahge in Seba village of

East Kameng district East Kameng district is one of districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeastern, India. It shares an international border with China in the north and district borders with West Kameng district to the west, Pakke-Kessang district to the south ...

, Arunachal Pradesh. He finished his schooling in two different towns,

Seppa Seppa (formerly known as Sabpa) is the headquarters of the East Kameng district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. ''Sabpa'' means 'marshy' land in the local dialect. It lies on the bank of Kameng River and there is a helipad there. It ...

and

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, and eventually settled at Seijosa,

Pakke-Kessang district Pakke-Kessang is a district located in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the Northeast of India. The district used to be a part of the neighboring district, East Kameng, and was created out of its five southernmost administrative units: Pijera ...

. His elder brother, Katung Wahge, is the Chief Engineer of Western Zone of

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Political career

Wahge is a member of the

(BJP) and is active in the politics of

. He embarked on a career in politics after joining the youth wing of the BJP,

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(BJYM), in 2000 and held various positions in the organisation till 2008. He was the state general secretary of the BJYM from 2000 to 2003 and became its vice-president in 2003 and remained in this capacity till 2005. He became the president of the BJYM in 2005 and held this position till 2008 when he left the organisation for the parent body and became the treasurer of the latter. He was promoted to the rank of state general secretary of the BJP in 2014.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

In the 2017 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly

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, Wahge was given a BJP

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to contest from Pakke-Kessang Vidhan Sabha constituency. Bypoll to this constituency was necessitated following the rejection of

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politician and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

Kameng Dolo Kameng Dolo is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. Dolo was a deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh in Kalikho Pul's government as well as Gegong Apang. He founded Congress (Dolo) on July 25, 2003, and formed a government along wi ...

's plea by the

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against a judgement of the

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declaring the election of Dolo in the

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void. Dolo also contested the bypoll from the same constituency but lost against Wahge. He was again entrusted by the party from Pakke-Kessang to contest the

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. He defeated the Congress candidate

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by a margin of 2,222 votes. He donated his first salary as a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly to the party's state unit fund, becoming the first legislator in the history of Arunachal Pradesh to do so.

BJP Arunachal Pradesh president

Wahge was elected as the president of the state unit of the BJP, BJP Arunachal Pradesh, on 17 January 2020 at

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, succeeding Tapir Gao. The election process was carried out under the supervision of party's

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for the organisational elections in the state, Roding Pertin. He received the certification of his election to the position of the president in the party's state organisational structure by the National General Secretary of the BJP, Anil Jain, in the presence of party's central election observer for the election of president in the state Vinod Sonkar, Education Minister

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, Rural Works Department Minister Honchun Ngandam and other legislators and senior leaders of the state BJP.

References

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