Takeng Taggu
| The Reverend Takeng Taggu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adi belt, Arunachal Pradesh, India |
| 💼 Occupation | Christian minister Civic leader Former police officer |
| 📆 Years active | 1984 – present |
| 🏢 Organization | Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church All Adi Welfare Society All Adi Belt Gaon Burah Welfare Association |
| Known for | Founding the Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church Council (1987) |
Takeng Taggu is an Indian Pentecostal minister and civic leader, and a member of the Adi community of Pasighat in East Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh. He is the founder of the Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church Council (APCRCC), one of the principal Protestant denominations in the state, and has subsequently led several Adi tribal welfare bodies, including the All Adi Welfare Society (AAWS), the All Adi Belt Gaon Burah Welfare Association (AABGBWA) and the Adi Belt Members Village Council Authority (ABMVCA).[1][2][3][4][5]
Taggu worked as a police officer in the Government of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1970s, when the state was actively enforcing restrictions on Christian missionary activity that culminated in the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 1978.[2] He has publicly recounted that in this capacity he "persecuted several Christians, burnt churches, arrested missionaries on government orders".[1] In 1984, dispatched to arrest a missionary who had travelled to Arunachal Pradesh from Kohima in Nagaland, he experienced what he described as a conviction of conscience on seeing the missionary "absorbed in prayer", and renounced his earlier conduct to embrace the Christian faith.[1][2]
The Christian work that Taggu took up after his conversion was formally constituted as the APCRCC at Naharlagun on 24 December 1987, as the Arunachal Pradesh affiliate of the wider Christian Revival Church movement that had begun at Gariphema village in Nagaland in 1962; the denomination subsequently expanded across the state.[6][2] Taggu has continued in ministry as a senior figure within the council, serving as the organising secretary of the 13th healing crusade held at the Changlang district CRC mission centre in November to December 2013, and as pastor of the Siang Prayer Centre in Pasighat.[7] He has also served as an adviser to the East Siang Christian Forum (ESCF), delivering the exhortation at the ESCF's November 2021 felicitation of 45 pioneers of Christianity in the district.[8]
Alongside his clerical work, Taggu has held senior positions in Adi tribal civil society. As president of the All Adi Welfare Society he led a mass protest rally in 2023 against a proposed mega-dam survey on the Siang river in the Adi belt, telling reporters that "Siang is our pride and we will not allow any dam to be constructed on this river in the entire Adi belt".[3][9] As of 2025 he is the president of the All Adi Belt Gaon Burah Welfare Association, an umbrella body representing the approximately 800 Gaon Burahs and gaon burihs across six to seven districts of the Adi belt, in which capacity he has publicly raised the working conditions of GBs and campaigned for clearer leadership rules in the inter-village and apex traditional customary courts under the recently amended Assam Frontier Regulation (Amendment) Act 2023.[4][10] He is also president of the Adi Belt Members Village Council Authority, in which role he attended as guest of honour the 96th birth anniversary commemoration of Daying Ering at Pasighat in December 2025.[5][11][12]
See also
- Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church Council
- Christianity in Arunachal Pradesh
- Christian Revival Church
- Adi people
- Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act, 1978
- Daying Ering
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Saikia, Arunabh (March 2023). "Preach". FiftyTwo. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Soreng, Joel (February 2025). "Indian Christians Stopped an Anticonversion Law. Until Now". Christianity Today. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Arunachal Pradesh: A Massive Protest Rally Against Mega Dam Construction On The Siang River". Northeast Today. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "AABGBWA team calls on DC". Arunachal Observer. 28 August 2025. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dr Daying Ering remembered on 96th birth anniversary". Eastern Sentinel. 12 December 2025. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church Council". Arunachal24. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "13th healing crusade concludes at Kharsang". The Arunachal Times. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ Tayeng, Maksam (11 November 2021). "Arunachal: ESCF felicitates 45 pioneers of Christian community from various denominations". Arunachal24. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "DRP NB 180923: Floodplain loss". SANDRP (South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People). 18 September 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "Gaon Burah Associations Call on DC Pasighat, Seek Support for GB Welfare". Arunachal24. 27 August 2025. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "96th birth anniversary of Dr Daying Ering celebrated". The Arunachal Times. 13 December 2025. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ "Arunachal: Pasighat Marks 96th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Ering". Arunachal24. 12 December 2025. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
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