CWC meeting to condole Khandu's death

A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is being held on Thursday to condole the death of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu.

A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is being held on Thursday to condole the death of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu.

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Party sources said that the meeting, the second of the newly-reconstituted working committee, would start at 12.00pm.

The first meeting of the new committee was held on March 5, a day after its reconstitution, to condole the death of party veteran Arjun Singh.

Khandu went missing on Saturday on a flight from Tawang along with four others. Their bodies and the wreckage of their helicopter which crashed in bad weather were located on Thursday after a five-day search.

This is the second death of a chief minister in similar circumstances in two years after the death of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash in Nallamalla ranges in the state in September 2009.