Career
As of 2014 he served as Minister of Tourism and Water Resources in the state government. He is the eldest son of Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who died in a helicopter crash. On May 20, 2011, following his father"s death, Khandu was included in the state government as Cabinet Minister of Water Resource Development and Tourism.
He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate.
Khandu became a secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee in 2005, and the president of the District Congress Committee in Tawang in 2010. Khandu was re-elected unopposed from Mukto in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
