Itanagar:Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Tshering Lahamu is on the verge of winning the Lungla assembly seat in Tawang district with “unopposed”. Because no one has filed a nomination against him. Tshering Lamu, wife of former MLA Jambe Tashi, had filed her nomination as a BJP candidate from lumla (Lungla) assembly constituency in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on February 7.
It may be recalled that the seat fell vacant after the death of former MLA Jambe Tashi at the age of 48 at a hospital in Guwahati in November last year. The deadline for filing nominations was February 7 at 3 pm. But no one filed nominations against the BJP candidate.
The nomination papers were scrutinised on February 8, and the deadline for withdrawal of candidature has been fixed for February 10.