Bakin Pertin

Bakin Pertin (1 May 1942, in Damro village – 5 January 1996, in Guwahati[1][2]) was an Indian politician. Pertin belonged to the Adi people.[3] He was one of the first elected Lok Sabha members of Arunachal Pradesh, and later became a Member of the Legislative Assembly of that state.

Bakin Pertin
Member of Parliament
for Arunachal East
In office
1977–1979
Personal details
Born(1942-05-01)1 May 1942
Damro village, North-East Frontier Agency
Died(1996-01-05)5 January 1996
Guwahati
NationalityIndian
Political partyPeople's Party of Arunachal, Janata Dal
Alma materSt. Edmund's College, Delhi College

Youth and early career

Pertin studied at St. Edmund's College in Shillong and Delhi College in Delhi.[1] Pertin began his political activism during his student years.[2] In 1959 the All NEFA Students Union (later renamed as the All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union) was founded, with Pertin as its general secretary.[4] He worked at the news division of All India Radio between 1964 and 1969.[1] He was a member of Damro I Gram Panchayat, Maryiang Anchal Samiti and Siang Zilla Parishad.[5] In 1974 he became the general secretary of the Bogum Bokang Kebang (the highest tribal authority of the Adi people).[1][6] In 1975 he became the vice-president of the Siang Zilla Parishad.[2] He is also the founder president of PPA( peoples party of Arunachal). Indira Gandhi, the then prime minister had invited him to join Congress by offering him with Chief Minister's post, but he denied.

1977 election

The 1977 general election was the first time the newly created Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh was able to elect two members of the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament).[7] Pertin contested the election as an independent candidate for the Arunachal East constituency.[8] He won the seat, obtaining 28,557 votes (56.34% of the votes in the constituency).[8] The election in Arunachal Pradesh was fought on religious lines, as the two independent candidates (Pertin and another, that eventually withdrew from contest) were Christians and the two Indian National Congress candidate practised indigenous Donyi-Polo religion.[9]

MP

After being elected to the Lok Sabha, Pertin resigned from his post as Zilla Parishad vice-president.[5] In his election manifesto Pertin had vowed to form a regional political party, if elected.[10] Following the election Pertin organised a meeting in Pasighat in April 1977, to found the People's Party of Arunachal.[7] Pertin became the president of the new party.[11] Whilst being the leader of PPA, Pertin was continued to be linked to the Janata Party (then in government) in Delhi.[12] Pertin had the status of being an 'associated' member of the Janata Party. He later broke his links with the Janata Party.[13] Pertin strongly opposed the Freedom of Indigenous Faith Bill (which outlaws conversion from 'one indigenous faith to any other faith or religion by use of force or by inducement or by fraudulent means').[14]

1980 election

He lost the Arunachal East Lok Sabha seat in the 1980 general election. He obtained 43% of the votes.[15] In the election campaign Pertin's opponents had accused PPA of being a Christian party and opposed to indigenous religion.[3]

MLA

He tried to win back the Arunachal East Lok Sabha seat in the 1984 election. He finished in second place with 22,697 votes (23.76%).[16] Pertin also contested the 1984 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, as the PPA candidate in the Meriyang-Mebo constituency. He won the seat with 4,167 votes (51.42%).[17]

In Janata Dal

When the Janata Dal was formed, Pertin became the secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh unit of the party.[18] He contested two seats in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1990|1990 Legislative Assembly election; Mariyang-Geku (ST) and Pasighat East (ST). He lost in both constituencies. Pertin obtained 2,746 votes (34.48%) in Pasighat East (ST), losing by a margin of merely 84 votes).[19] In Mariyang-Geku he finished second with 3,047 votes (44.91%).[19] In the 1995 Legislative Assembly election he contested the Mebo (ST) seat, again as a Janata Dal candidate. He finished in second place with 1,872 votes (32.47%).[20]

Pertin died in 1996, at the age of 53. He was noted for his contributions to adult education.[2]

References
  1. India News and Feature Alliance. India Who's Who. New Delhi: INFA Publications, 1997. p. 49
  2. Lok Sabha Debates. Lok Sabha Secretariat., 1996. pp. xvii–xviii
  3. The Election Archives, Vol. 65–70. Shiv Lal, 1982. p. 139
  4. The Assam Tribune. Adi, Mising communities for revival of lost glory
  5. Talukdar, Atul Chandra. Political Transition in the Grassroots in Tribal India. New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1987. p. 89
  6. Swain, Pratap Chandra. Panchayati Raj: The Grassroots Dynamics in Arunachal Pradesh. New Delhi: A.P.H. Pub. Corp, 2008. p. 40
  7. Begi, Joram. Education in Arunachal Pradesh Since 1947: Constraints, Opportunities, Initiatives and Needs. New Delhi: Mittal Publ, 2007. p. 17
  8. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1977 to the Sixth Lok Sabha Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Chaube, Shibani Kinkar. Electoral Politics in Northeast India. Madras: Universities Press, 1985. p. 193
  10. Modi, Milorai. The Millangs. Itanagar: Himalayan Publishers, 2007. p. 90
  11. Johsi, H. G. Arunachal Pradesh: Past and Present. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 2005. p. 126
  12. Shiv Lal. Elections Under the Janata Rule. New Delhi: Election Archives, 1978. p. 21
  13. Organiser, Vol. 30. Bharat Prakashan., 1978. p. 33
  14. Gurmit Singh. Failures of Akali Leadership. Sirsa, Haryana: Usha Institute of Religious Studies, 1981. p. 215
  15. Kumar, Sudhir. Political and Administrative Setup of Union Territories in India. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1991. p. 143
  16. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1984 to the Eighth Lok Sabah Archived 18 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  17. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1984 to the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  18. Election Archives and International Politics, Eds. 175–176; Eds. 179–184. Shiv Lal, 1991. p. 72
  19. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  20. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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