Phurpa Tsering is an Indian politician of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

. He served as the president of the Dirang Bloc Congress Committee between 2001 and 2003, later serving as the

West Kameng District West Kameng (pronounced ) is a district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It accounts for 8.86% of the total area of the state. The name is derived from the Kameng river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, that flows through the district ...

Youth Congress president 2003-2005. He was elected unopposed to the West Kameng Zilla Parishad, representing the Thembang Block. Between 2007 and 2008 he served as the chairman of the Zilla Parishad as well as being the president of the West Kameng District Congress Committee. Tsering stood as a

People's Party of Arunachal Peoples Party of Arunachal, 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 ...

candidate in the Dirang seat and was elected to the

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in the 2009 election, defeating the incumbent

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MLA Tsering Gyurme. Tsering obtained 6,618 votes against 5,085 votes for Tsering Gyurme. In June 2012 Tsering was named Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Technology by Chief Minister Nabam Tuki.''Echo of Arunachal''.
Phurpa Tsering sworn in as 25th Parliamentary Secy
' Tsering was re-elected unopposed from Dirang in the

2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2014 took place on 9 April 2014 along with the parliamentary election 2014. The votes were counted on 16 May 2014. The election was held in the state for all 60 seats of the Arunachal Pradesh ...

as well as in

2019 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Arunachal Pradesh on April 11 to elect the 60 members of Legislative Assembly. The term of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly ends on June 1, 2019. This results in a landslide victory for Bharatiya ...

.CEO Arunachal Pradesh.
List of contesting candidates
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