Aizawl, Feb. 18: The rebel factions in the Mizoram Congress and the Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC) have both demanded a change in leadership. Sources in the Mizoram PCC said at a meeting held here last week, the rebel leaders asked state Congress president Lalthanhawla to resign.
Members of the MPC political affairs committee also asked their party president, Lalhmingthanga, to step down from the post. However, the two presidents have refused to tender their resignation, saying that they would do so only if the party cadre wanted them to.
Both Lalthanhawla and Lalhmingthanga were away when the rebel factions demanded their resignation. While Lalhming-thanga was asked to step down while he was in southern Mizoram, Lalthanhawla was in Calcutta last week. Enraged over the incident, Lalthanhawla said the party election next year would prove whether he was still wanted or not.
The goodwill dinner MPC president Lalhmingthanga hosted last evening did not seem to have done much for him as most of the party bigwigs kept away. The rebel faction has decided to pit Lalhmingthanga?s cousin, Col Lalchungnunga, for the post of president in the party elections next week.