Politics / Mizoram

AIZAWL, March 13: With dissensions surfacing within the BJP's pradesh committee in Mizoram, a meeting of the party's full extended committee on March 12, threw its support behind its president Ramtiama, reports PTI. The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Ramtiama, dismissed the allegations levelled against the party president as 'baseless". A party press release issued here said that donations collected for Gujarat earthquake relief fund was Rs 14,610 only, and not Rs 1.2 lakh as alleged by the president's detractors. "The donations already collected would be submitted to the party's New...

AIZAWL, March 10: Senior BJP leaders of Mizoram have alleged that the State unit chief Ramtiama has misused Rs 1.2 lakh of the 'Gujarat relief fund' collected by the party workers, reports PTI. In a letter to the president of the BJP, Bangaru Laxman yesterday four top leaders of the State unit alleged that the total amount collected for Gujarat relief had not reached the BJP government of that State. "Our unit president Ramtiama is unable to provide any details about the donations collected, or the action he has taken to benefit the intended beneficiaries, "the letter, which was faxed to the...

HAILAKANDI, March 3: The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), a militant outfit of Reang (Bru) communities, has asked the Mizoram government to initiate peace parleys with it by declaring a ceasefire in the state. The BNLF has been demanding the creation of a Bru homeland within the State of Mizoram. The organising secretary of the outfit, S Bru through a press statement also warned that if the authorities concerned fail to respond positively to its demand, the organisation may be forced to carry out subversive activities in and around Mizoram. The BNLF leader further said that the onus of...

AIZAWL, February 28: The Mara Students' Organisation has submitted a memorandum to Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on the issues of job reservation for the community and enhancement of the powers of Mara Autonomous District Council, reports PTI. The 12-page memorandum sought job reservation of at least 10 per cent for the Maras, most of them inhabiting Mizoram's southern district of Saiha and the areas under MADC. The student body wanted appointment of one Mara representative in the Mizoram Public Service Commission and opening the commission's branch office at Saiha to ensure job...

AIZAWL, February 16: Chief Minister Zoramthanga has asked the Prime Minister to allot Mizoram a separate All-India cadre as the officials posted under the present AGMUT cadre were not under the control of the State government, which created hindrance in running a smooth administration, reports UNI. The Chief Minister raised the issue during a meeting with Atal Behari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Wednesday, official sources said here. Zoramthanga observed that while the three newly-formed States had a separate cadre, Mizoram, which achieved statehood in the late eighties, still lacked one despite...

AIZAWL, February 20: The repatriation of Bru refugees from Tripura would begin after the activists of National Liberation Front (BNLF) come overground and lay down their arms, Mizoram Home Minister Tawnluia said. The State Government was ready for return of all the refugees, sheltered in Tripura camps, who were bonafide residents of Mizoram but the Bru rebel groups would have to lay down arms and return to normal lives first, an official release quoted Tawnluia as saying so on Friday. Leaders of the Bru Welfare Committee met the Minister on Friday and apprised Tawnluia of the miseries and...

NEW DELHI, February 7: The Mizoram Chakma Welfare Committee has met Home Minister L K Advani and Law Minister Arun Jaitley to press their demand for creation of an Union Territory for the Chakmas of Mizoram by upgrading the Chakma Autonomous District Council, reports UNI. Stating this at a press conference today, Committee secretary general Surja Sen Chakma accused the Mizoram Government of continuing its policy of systematic discrimination by directing the Food and Civil Supplies Department and NGOs not to issue ration cards or birth certificates to persons not included in the electoral rolls...

AIZAWL, January 31: Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ajay Srivastava, today visited Mizoram western Dampa Rengpui hamlet inhabited by Reangs Brus, according to official sources here, reports PTI. Srivastava arrived here yesterday to conduct on-the-spot verification of the progress of identification of Reang refugees, now lodged in six refugee camps in Tripura. He met State Chief Minister Zoramthanga and Chief Secretary H V Lalringa and discussed with them the issue of repatriation of the refugees from Tripura. The Mizoram Government has identified more than 11,000 Bru refugees...

AIZAWL, January 18: Close on the heels of the Opposition walk-out on Wednesday night, the Speaker had to adjourn the House for two hours on Thursday following a pandemonium created by the Opposition benches, report agencies. Trouble started soon after the Question Hour when leader of the Opposition and Mizo People's Conference (MPC) president Lalhmingthanga's demand that his adjournment motion be admitted, was rejected by the Speaker, Lalawa. Following this, the Opposition members stalled the proceedings and gathered at the Wel shouting slogans against the Mizo National Front government.

AIZAWL, January 18: The entire Opposition staged a walkout on Wednesday night in the State Legislative Assembly protesting the break in the "well-laid-down parliamentary conventions", just before the voting on the motion of thanks on the Governor's address, report agencies. According to main Opposition Mizo People's Convention (MPC) president and leader of the Opposition Lalhmingthanga, the age-old parliamentary norm of inviting the Opposition leader to either initiate or wind up a discussion was ignored for the fourth time in the Assembly when a member of the Treasury bench was invited to...