AIZAWL, March 26 — Mizoram Assembly on March 25 unanimously adopted a resolution that the State Assembly polls in 2003 will be held in accordance with the boundaries of the existing constituencies, reports PTI. The official resolution moved by the state Parliamentary Affairs Minister F Malsawma said “This House resolves that the general election of Mizoram legislative assembly in 2003 be held in accordance with the boundaries of the existing constituencies.”
Cutting across party lines, the legislators, during discussion on the resolution said that the proposals of the delimitation commission to delimit Mizoram assembly constituencies were not acceptable and unviable. Though some minor changes in the demarcations of the constituencies were needed, the Delimitation Commission’s draft proposals were meant to “divide the state on communal and ethnic lines” besides being topographically and demographically unrealistic and not fit for implementation, the speakers said.
Earlier, the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) had taken a stand that the party would boycott the State Assembly polls schduled to be held in the later part of this year if the proposals of the commission were imposed in the state.