{"id":940253,"date":"2026-07-09T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=520684"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:08:57","slug":"manipur-former-irs-officer-gaigongdin-panmei-joins-bjp-ahead-of-2027-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/07\/09\/manipur-former-irs-officer-gaigongdin-panmei-joins-bjp-ahead-of-2027-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: Former IRS officer Gaigongdin Panmei joins BJP ahead of 2027 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gaigongdin Panmei joins BJP Manipur\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gaigongdin Panmei joins BJP Manipur\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Untitled-design-26.jpg?fit=800%2C480&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: In a political boost for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Manipur&#8217;s Tamenglong district, which is predominantly inhabited by the Naga community, retired Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Gaigongdin Panmei formally joined the party on Thursday. Panmei was inducted at the BJP state headquarters, Thambal Sanglen, Nityaipat Chuthek, in the presence of Rajya Sabha [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-former-irs-officer-gaigongdin-panmei-joins-bjp-ahead-of-2027-polls.html\">Manipur: Former IRS officer Gaigongdin Panmei joins BJP ahead of 2027 polls<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-former-irs-officer-gaigongdin-panmei-joins-bjp-ahead-of-2027-polls.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-former-irs-officer-gaigongdin-panmei-joins-bjp-ahead-of-2027-polls.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: In a political boost for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Manipur&#8217;s Tamenglong district, which is predominantly inhabited by the Naga community, retired Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Gaigongdin Panmei formally joined the party&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-940253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940273,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940253\/revisions\/940273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}