Politics / Mizoram

Aizawl, May 14: Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, who is also the Mizo National Front president, today allayed fears that the Congress-led government at the Centre would dissolve the MNF ministry. With the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) voted out of power in Delhi, doubts have been raised within the ruling MNF over the fate of the government. The MNF had joined the NDA in January this year.

Zoramthanga expressed his opinion at a function here today where the new MP and MLA of the MNF were being felicitated.

Describing the dissolution of ministries in states ruled by Opposition parties...

AIZAWL, May 14 – Despite several political parties forming an alliance to defeat the ruling Mizo National Front in the lone Lok Sabha seat in the State, the Front emerged winner. MNF's Vanlalzawma defeated his main rival Laltluangliana Khiangte, an independent backed by Congress, the Mizoram People's Congress (MPC) and the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP), by a margin of 23,694 votes, a huge margin for a total electorate of five lakh. Vanlalzawma polled 1,82,864 votes and Khiangte secured 1,59,170 while Tlangdingliana of Ephraim Union managed to get only 6,514.

This time, the MNF polled 52.95...

AIZAWL, May 13 – The ruling Mizo National Front, a constituent of the NDA, emerged the winner in the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat as well as the by-poll in the Kolasib Assembly seat after counting was completed in all polling stations, except for two situated in the southernmost Lawngtlai assembly segment. Vanlalzawma of the MNF won by defeating his nearest Mizoram Secular Force-sponsored independent candidate, Laltluangliana Khiangte, by a margin of 23,185 votes, a huge margin in a small Parliamentary constituency like Mizoram having total electorate of 5,49,945 only. Vanlalzawma secured 1,82...

AIZAWL, May 6 – The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) and the underground Bru National Liberation Front have refuted allegations by Mizoram Opposition parties that the BNLF leaders forcibly collected 3,620 postal ballot papers, reports PTI. A press release issued by the MBDPF, faxed to media here from Kanchanpur in North Tripura, said free and fair polls to Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat was conducted in the relief camps in Tripura on April 20.

“The postal ballot papers, after each voter exercised their franchise, were placed inside envelopes which were sealed and were collected by...

New Delhi, May 5: The displaced Bru community of Mizoram is set to return home from the refugee camps of Tripura after seven years of uncertainty and hardship. The militant Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) and the Mizoram government have drafted an agreement on rehabilitation of the 40,000-odd members of the tribe who were hounded out of the state in 1997.

“The draft of the accord has been finalised and it will be placed before the cabinet for approval very soon. Almost all contentious issues have been resolved and the accord is likely to be signed after May 25, by which time the poll...

IMPHAL, May 4–Former Manipur mp kim Gangte has condemned Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga’s decision of fielding a candidate to contest in the outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency in the ongoing 14th Lok Sabha polls as “very much destructive and criminal.” Kim Gangte is one of the six candidates in the fray for the outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The others include Rosangzuala, a Mizo, contesting on a Janata Dal - United (jd-u) ticket.

“It is fortunate again that Zoramthanga has sent a candidate from Aizawl to contest in the outer Manipur...

AIZAWL, April 30 – The 12-hour bandh called by Mizoram's three major Opposition parties paralysed normal life but passed off peacefully, reports PTI. Except policemen and a few bandh organisers, people did not venture outside as all the Central and State government offices, financial and educational institutions remained closed.

The organisers, the Congress, Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) and Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) combine, called off the bandh at 1530 hrs, one-and-a-half-hour earlier "as the bandh was a total success."

The bandh was organised in protest against the alleged...

AIZAWL, April 3 – There will be a triangular fight for Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat while it would be a straight contest in the by-poll to the Kolasib Assembly seat, official sources said here today, after the last day of withdrawal of nominations. Polling for both the Lok Sabha polls and Kolasib by-poll would be held on April 20. Lalramtiama, former state BJP unit president, who filed his nomination for Kolasib Assembly by-election today withdrew his papers. The BJP, earlier announced that it would support the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) in the Lok Sabha polls, but would contest the...

Aizawl, March 8: The Young Mizo Association (YMA) has served non-Mizos staying in Mizoram without proper authorisation with an ultimatum to leave the state by April 7. The association has also urged the Mizos not to encourage the non-Mizos to stay in the state by doing business with them or employing them for work that is not stipulated in their inner-line permits.

A statement issued by the central executive committee of the YMA said the ultimatum was issued to pursue its 2004 objective to ?safeguard the land and its people?.

Justifying the ultimatum, the organisation said the non-Mizos had...

Silchar, March 7: Mizoram has added another feather to its cap ? it has emerged as a state where women voters outnumber their male counterparts. The revised electoral rolls for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state show that women voters have edged past their male counterparts by 2,272. Of the 5,50,232 voters in Mizoram, there are 2,76,252 women and 2,73,980 men.

Women had outnumbered men by 3,816 heads during last year?s Assembly polls too. It is, however, a matter of irony in the Christian state that though women voters are more in number than men, they do not shine in the same proportion on...