| Uphill task for Apang (1628 words) |
 | Satish, who is in charge of BJP affairs in the northeastern States refuted the Congress claim and pointed out that seven of the nine BJP candidates have won for the first time, which indicated that the Congress' influence in these constituencies had declined and that the voters gave the mandate to new faces. |
| Whatever be the Congress' interpretation, the fact remains that the BJP has succeeded in making inroads into the Congress bastion by winning nine seats, when it failed to win a single seat in the 1999 Assembly elections despite a poll alliance with Gegong Apang-led Arunachal Congress. |
| Congress sources said that Mithi lost his bargaining power to stake claim to the chief ministership as only six of his 16 hardcore loyalists, known as "super sixteen" in party circles, could win. |
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