AIZAWL, March 14: Two main
opposition parties in Mizoram –
Congress and Zoram People’s
Movement – today fielded a young
leader Lalnghinglova ‘Tetea’ Hmar
as its common candidate for the
election to the lone Lok Sabha seat
in Mizoram to be held on April 11.
Congress and ZPM had on
March 12 made an agreement to
field a common candidate for the
Lok Sabha and bye-election to Aizawl West-I Assembly seat to
be held simultaneously.
Lalbuanga Sailo, a retired government official, is the combined force’s
nominee for the bye-election, necessitated by the resignation of
ZPM leader Lalduhoma, who also
got elected from Serchhip seat in
the November 2018 Assembly
elections.
Congress-ZPM combined
candidate will use a triangle as
his symbol.
The main reason behind forming the electoral alliance is to “take
on the Hindutva force” and to keep
the BJP-led NDA at bay thus preventing the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) from getting a
passage in the Parliament.
Announcing the candidatures of
Hmar and Sailo, ZPM leader K
Sapdanga said that the ZPM and
Congress party which had fought
stiff electoral battle during the
election to the 40-member State
Assembly on November 28, has
come together on a common platform – to defeat the BJP and its
allies in the State.
Sapdanga alleged that the BJP
has been having a hidden agenda
to make India a Hindu State and
to wipe out Christians from the
face of India.
He also said that the proposed
CAB, if legislated by the Parliament would result in the assimilation of the Mizos by illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh.
Lalnghinglova, 42, is a wellknown sports journalist and presently honorary secretary of the
Mizoram Football Association
(MFA). He is currently joint editor of Vanglaini, the largest circulated vernacular daily in Mizoram.
The ruling Mizo National
Front (MNF) had already announced yesterday that former
Director General of Doordarshan C Lalrosanga and former
student leader Zothantluanga
would be the party’s nominees
for the Lok Sabha and Assembly
by-polls respectively. ~ Assam Tribune
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