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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Biyuram Wahge
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}
| birth_place = Seba village, [[East Kameng district]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]], India
| office = [[List of current state presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party|President of the Arunachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| predecessor = [[Tapir Gao]]
| successor =
| term_start = 17 January 2020
| term_end =
| predecessor1 = [[Kameng Dolo]]
| office1 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] for [[Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Arunachal Pradesh]]
| term_start1 = 24 December 2017
| term_end1 =
| constituency1 = [[Pakke-Kessang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pakke-Kessang]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| alma_mater =
| spouse =
| children =
}}
'''Biyuram Wahge''' (born 1965) is an Indian politician from [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. He is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and the president of state's BJP unit. He is a member of the [[Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Pakke-Kessang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pakke-Kessang constituency]].

== Personal life ==
Wahge was born in 1965 to Tali Wahge in Seba village of [[East Kameng district]], Arunachal Pradesh. He finished his schooling in two different towns, [[Seppa]] and [[Bomdila]], and eventually settled at [[Seijosa]], [[Pakke-Kessang district]]. His elder brother, Katung Wahge, is the Chief Engineer of Western Zone of [[Public Works Department]], [[Government of Arunachal Pradesh]].<ref name="AT20">{{Cite news |url=https://arunachaltimes.in/index.php/2020/01/18/biyuram-wahge-elected-state-bjp-president/ |title=Biyuram Wahge elected state BJP president |work=The Arunachal Times |location=Itanagar |date=18 January 2020 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Wahge is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) and is active in the politics of [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. He embarked on a career in politics after joining the youth wing of the BJP, [[Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha]] (BJYM), in 2000 and held various positions in the organisation till 2008. He was the state general secretary of the BJYM from 2000 to 2003 and became its vice-president in 2003 and remained in this capacity till 2005. He became the president of the BJYM in 2005 and held this position till 2008 when he left the organisation for the parent body and became the treasure of the latter. He was promoted to the rank of state general secretary of the BJP in 2014.<ref name="AT20" />

=== Member of the Legislative Assembly ===
In the 2017 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly [[by-election]], Wahge was given a BJP [[ticket (election)|ticket]] to contest from [[Pakke-Kessang (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Pakke-Kessang Vidhan Sabha constituency]]. Bypoll to this constituency was necessitated following the rejection of [[Indian National Congress]] politician and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Arunchal Pradesh [[Kameng Dolo]]'s plea by the [[Supreme court]] against a judgement of the [[Guwahati High Court]] declaring the election of Dolo in the [[2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] void.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/ex-deputy-cm-of-arunachal-pradesh-kameng-dolo-loses-poll-battle-in-supreme-court/682070/ |title=Ex-deputy CM of Arunachal Pradesh Kameng Dolo loses poll battle in Supreme Court |work=[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]] |date=23 May 2017 |access-date=19 July 2020 |agency=[[Press Trust of India]] |location=New Delhi}}</ref> Dolo also contested the bypoll from the same constituency but lost against Wahge.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/counting-begins-for-assembly-bypolls-in-sabang-sikandara-and-arunachal-pradeshs-pakke-kessang-and-likabali-constituencies-4273221.html |title=Bypolls results: TMC wins Sabang constituency, BJP leads in Sikandra, Pakke-Kessang and Likabali Assembly seats |work=[[Firstpost]] |date=24 December 2017 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>

He was again entrusted by the party from Pakke-Kessang to contest the [[2019 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]. He defeated the Congress candidate [[Atum Welly]] by a margin of 2,222 votes.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.oneindia.com/pakke-kessang-assembly-elections-ar-12/ |title=Pakke-Kessang Assembly Election Results 2019 |publisher=[[Oneindia]] |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref> He donated his first salary as a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly to the party's state unit fund, becoming
the first legislator in the history of Arunachal Pradesh to do so.<ref name="EastMojo20">{{Cite news |url=https://www.eastmojo.com/arunachal-pradesh/2020/01/17/arunachal-pakke-kessang-mla-biyuram-wahge-elected-state-bjp-chief |title=Arunachal: Pakke Kessang MLA Biyuram Wahge elected state BJP chief |publisher=EastMojo |last=Lepcha |first=Irani Sonowal |date=17 January 2020 |access-date=19 July 2020 |location=Itanagar}}</ref>

=== BJP Arunachal Pradesh president ===
Wahge was elected as the president of the state unit of the BJP, BJP Arunachal Pradesh, on 17 January 2020 at [[Itanagar]], succeeding [[Tapir Gao]].<ref name="AT20" /> The election process was carried out under the supervision of party's [[returning officer]] for the organisational elections in the state, [[Roding Pertin]]. He received the certification of his election to the position of the president in the party's state organisational structure by the National General Secretary of the BJP, [[Anil Jain (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Anil Jain]], in the presence of party's central election observer for the election of president in the state [[Vinod Sonkar]], Education Minister [[Taba Tedir]], Rural Works Department Minister [[Honchun Ngandam]] and other legislators and senior leaders of the state BJP.<ref name="EastMojo20" />

== References ==
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[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Arunachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:People from East Kameng district]]
[[Category:Members of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]

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