Wangcha Rajkumar (29 December 1966 - 23 December 2007) was an Indian politician and former

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha ( abbreviated: MP) is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of parliament of Lok Sabha are chosen by direct elections ...

representing Arunachal Pradesh East from 1996 to 2004. He was assassinated by unidentified assailants of on 23 December 2007.

Personal life

Rajkumar was born on 29 December 1966 to Wangmai Rajkumar and Chamcha Rajkumar Namsang tehsil of the

Tirap district Tirap district (Pron:/tɪˈɹæp/) is a district located in the southeastern part of the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It shares a state border with Assam, an international border with Myanmar and a district border with Changlang and ...

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 was educated at

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in Deomali. Rajkumar married Secha Rajkumar on 22 April 1992, with whom he had a son.

Political career

As a member of the

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party, Rajkumar was the Joint Secretary of the

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from 1987 to 1990 and the District Congress from 1990 to 1994. He became a Member of the

Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Arunachal Pradesh state in north-eastern India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Itanagar, the capital of the state. The Legislative Assembly comprise ...

in 1995. Subsequently he was elected as the Member of Parliament in the 11th,

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, and

13th Lok Sabha The 13th Lok Sabha (20 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) is the thirteenth session of the Lok Sabha (House of the People, or lower house in the Parliament of India). It was convened after 1999 Indian general election held during September–Oct ...

as a representative of the Arunachal Pradesh East constituency from 1996 to 2004. During his tenure, Rajkumar was a member of the Public Accounts Committee; Committee on Government Assurances; Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution; Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power; Rules Committee; and Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs.

Death

Rajkumar was shot dead by two unidentified assailants on 23 December 2007 at Deomali Community Hall while playing badminton. In 2011, the Central Bureau Of Investigation revealed that members of separatist group

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were involved in the assassination and had arrested a member in the process. However the case is still pending as of June 2019. On Indian Express http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/exarunachal-mp-shot-dead/253863/

References

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