Kalikho Pul (20 July 1969 – 9 August 2016) was an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh for a brief time in 2016.
With the support of a few elected members of Congress and the opposing Bharatiya Janata Party, he took Chief Ministership of Arunachal Pradesh.
Pul was born on 20 July 1969 in the Walla village of Hawai,[5] Anjaw district and belonged to the Kaman Mishmi ethnic group.
In that context, he prepared him for a welcome speech at a function held at the school where the education minister Khapriso Krong and Lohit Deputy Commissioner D S Negi were to be present.
Pul later earned a living by opening a paan shop, making bamboo fences and thatched houses, and building concrete structures.
Later, he graduated in economics (part of Humanities stream) from Indira Gandhi College, Tezu[5] and also studied law.
He considered committing suicide by jumping over the bridge in River Lohit but said that he could not "take the extreme step due to the presence of people".
He also launched a community horti-farming project in Anjaw district, aimed at providing technical support and marketing assistance to farmers of products such as cardamom, kiwis, plums, apples and oranges.
[14] Pul called Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee's move foul as he was not even served a show cause notice and said that he was "punished for doing his job".
The Congress party accused Rajkhowa of tacitly helping the rebels by calling the assembly session in December, a month ahead of schedule.
Pul and the dissident MLAs came back to the Congress fold and supported Pema Khandu as the Chief Minister.
[22] Reports of finding a diary written by Pul were dismissed by additional district magistrate (ADM) Talo Potom on 11 August.
[24] According to Indo-Asian News Service, a senior police official confirmed that a suicide note was found but did not divulge its contents.
[27] The suicide note contains the names of two Supreme Court judges who were part of the bench that dismissed Pul's government.