Alo Libang (born 1 March 1964) is an Indian politician from the state of

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and la ...

. He is the current Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development & Tribal Affairs of Arunachal Pradesh. Alo Libang was elected uncontested as a candidate from 34 Tuting-Yingkiong constituency seat 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 Prade ...

, as an Indian National Congress (INC) candidateCEO Arunachal Pradesh.
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'' and in 2019 Assembly election by securing 5800 votes he was again elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh from the same Constituency by defeating Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Gegong Apang by a margin of 1609 votes.

Early life and education

Alo Libang was born and brought up in a small village called Simong, 10 kilometres away from Yingkiong Town, Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh. He was well versed in public speaking from his childhood. He completed his graduation in Bachelor of Arts (

B.A. A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree ...

) from Jawaharlal Nehru College, Pasighat under

Rajiv Gandhi University Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) (formerly Arunachal University) is the oldest university in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is located at Rono Hills in Doimukh town, about 28km from the state capital, Itanagar. The foundation stone f ...

erstwhile Arunachal University in Itanagar,

Political career

He made his foray into politics during the year 2009 and was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh, as a candidate from

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the List of political parties in India#State parties, state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra with a recognised state party statu ...

(NCP). He later joined

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

Party in 2012. He holds many important portfolios in Arunachal cabinet. He is currently serving as Minister, Health & Family Welfare, Social Welfare, Women & Child Development, Social Justice, Empowerment & Tribal Affairs. In September 2016, he was sworn in as the Deputy Speaker of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly and in Assembly election of 2019 he won seat from 34 Tuting-Yingkiong (ST) constituency as Member of Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh as a

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 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. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...

candidate.

Public policies and schemes

He launched the HRMIS (Human Resources Management Information System) state level flagship programme under the

National Health Mission The National Health Mission (NHM) was launched by the government of India in 2013 subsuming the National Rural Health Mission and National Urban Health Mission. It was further extended in March 2018, to continue until March 2020. It is headed b ...

(NHM) to ensure timely and transparent dispensation of Health services across all districts as first of its kind in the State and launched Mission 'Pratiraksha" to ensure 100 percent immunisation coverage of children in the State to curb the spread of preventable diseases. The programme achieved 67 percent immunisation and he introduced ' ''Sarkaar Apke Dwaar''' (''Government at your Doorstep'') initiative in remote areas of

Tuting Tuting is a town and headquarters of an eponymous circle in the Upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is situated on the bank of Siang river (Brahmaputra) at a distance of south of Line of Actual Control and north of Yingkion ...

, Upper Siang making accessible basic government services to local population which are some of his major contributions in the field of public services. In April 2020, he inaugurated first COVID-19 Testing Lab at Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Science (TRIHMS) Itanagar, which is the first ever Covid-19 Testing Facility in the State and third in Northeast India after Assam and Mizoram. The Health Minister was reported Covid-19 positive along with six other Legislators from the State of Arunachal Pradesh in mid September 2020.

2019 assembly elections

Alo Libang contested election for 2019 and won seat in the Arunachal Legislative Assembly as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from 34 Tuting-Yingkiong constituency as the 'Chowkidar' (watchman) campaign slogan is adopted and espoused by current Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, now a catchphrase in vogue, later many including Libang also adopted an expression ''" Main bhi Chowkidaar''" (roughly translating to "me too watchman") to express solidarity with the party vision of BJP. He secured a total of 5800 votes and defeated the Janta Dal (Secular) candidate Gegong Apang and Tsepa Wanchuk Khampa by a margin of 1609 and 5472 votes respectively for the 34 Tuing-Yingkiong Constituency in 2019 Assembly election.

References

External links

Alo Libang Janta Pratinidhi profile

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