ITANAGAR: All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi is likely to arrive here on Tuesday to campaign for the party candidates for the April 11 simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state. Congress sources here informed that he is scheduled to address an election rally at Indira Gandhi Park here during the day.The party will announce the names of the candidates in the state before Gandhi's visit, Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Takam Sanjoy informed. Congress, which won 42 seats in 2014 Assembly elections, is now left with five seats after senior leader Kalikho Pul broke away from the Congress government of Nabam Tuki with 24 MLAs to form a People's Party of Arunachal (PPA) government in February 2017. Later, incumbent chief minister Pema Khandu, who along with 33 MLAs switched from PPA to BJP in July 2017 and formed the BJP government with 12 BJP MLAs and Independents Candidates. A total of 7,94,162 voters, including 4,01,601 women, would exercise their franchise in the April 11 simultaneous polls in 2, 202 polling stations across the state. Polling station No. 52 at Naharalagun, under Itanagar Assembly constituency, has the highest number of 1340 voters, while Malogam polling station under Hayuliang constituency in remote Anjaw district bordering China has only one female voter. Luguthang polling booth under Mukto constituency in Tawang district is the highest polling station located at an altitude of about 13,583 feet. Eleven polling stations have also been set up in the state exclusively for the female voters.

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