Aizwal: Mizoram assembly election results are out. Mizo National Front won 26 seats out of 40. Ruling Indian National Congress (INC) has a lot of disappointments and managed to win only 5 seats. Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) for the first time open its account in the state. BJP’s Buddha Dhan Chakma open[Read More…]
Aizawl: Mizoram Assembly Elections 2018: The Mizo National Front (MNF), which got only five seats in the 2013 Assembly polls, secured 21 seats and was leading in five more while the ruling Congress won only five seats. Final party position in the new Mizoram Assembly: Total seats: 40 Mizo National Front[Read More…]
Aizawl: Securing an absolute majority in the 40-member Mizoram Assembly, the MNF on Tuesday returned to power after a decade, crushing the Congress and ousting it from power in the last Northeastern state it ruled. The Mizo National Front (MNF), which got only five seats in the 2013 Assembly polls,[Read More…]
Himanta Biswa Sarma, convener of the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) has achieved the task of “Congress Mukt Northeast” he was entrusted with. Congress loses its last bastion in the North-East as according to the Mizoram Assembly Elections 2018, the rule is going to go back to the Mizo National Front.[Read More…]
Mizoram is one of the four states/UTs where Congress is in the ruling. Currently ruling in Mizoram with 34 MLAs, a straight fight between Congress and Mizo National Front. BJP has decided to go alone in the state. Axis C-Voter – Republic TV MRC Chanakya INC 14-18 MNF 16-20 Others[Read More…]
42 VVPATs, 25 ballot units replaced in Mizoram Forty-two VVPATs, 25 ballot units and 19 control units were replaced, following malfunctions at various polling stations across Mizoram, Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra said. 49% voter turnout until 1 pm: EC The Election Commission said that the polling percentage in Mizoram[Read More…]
Aizawl, Brisk polling is underway in Mizoram with nearly 25 per cent of 7.68 lakh voters casting their votes in the first three hours on Wednesday, an official said. Men and women dressd in traditional attires were seen queued up outside the many polling stations in all districts well before[Read More…]
New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed to the people of Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram to participate in large numbers as polling got underway in both states. “I urge all voters in the state to take part in democracy’s biggest festival with full enthusiasm and to vote in[Read More…]
Aizawl, Polling is underway for 40 seats to elect a new Mizoram Assembly. Nearly 15 per cent of the over 7.68 lakh electorate cast their votes in the first two hours on Wednesday, officials said. “Till 9 a.m., 15 per cent voter turnout has been recorded,” an Election Commission official[Read More…]
Bhopal/Aizawl, Madhya Pradesh will vote on Wednesday to either give the BJP a fourth successive term in power notwithstanding anti-incumbency or give a chance to the challenger Congress to break the saffron party’s monopoly over power for the last 15 years. Similarly, voters in Mizoram will also exercise their franchise[Read More…]
Mumbai, On November 28, Mizoram — the last northeast bastion of the Congress — will vote to elect a new government that will oversee what is planned as Indias gateway to Southeast Asia. With about half as many voters as south Mumbai, Mizoram is one of India’s fastest-growing, healthiest (second)[Read More…]
Aizwal: Mizo National Front (MNF) candidate Lal Rinliana Sailo has declared his total assets rocketed to 797 percent in the past five years. Sailchos has switched over from the Congress about a month ago. According to a report by two civil society organisations released on Thursday says that the asset[Read More…]
Robert Romawia Royte is the richest candidate in Mizoram‘s assembly elections having declared assets worth Rupees 55 crores. He has a variety of sports cars to his name and also owns a popular football club. Royte says he wishes to keep his election campaign modest with mostly relying on door-to-door[Read More…]
Aizwal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold three rallies in poll-bound Mizoram today amidst the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) statewide agitation call. This the first visit by the PM to the state in the last one year. He visited Mizoram in December last year. Narendra Modi is[Read More…]
Aizwal: Amidst the ongoing controversy over the appointment of Mizoram’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), the government is expected to change the polling date in the state to December 7. As per government sources, the final decision will be made by the Election Commission (EC) in coordination with the state government.[Read More…]
Aizawal: 204 candidates are in the election fray for the upcoming 40 members Mizoram Legislative assembly election and 28 candidates’ nomination papers were found inappropriate said the state election department officials. Wednesday is the last day for withdrawal of nominations. Eight candidates, including Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, Zoram People’s Movement[Read More…]
A high-level Election Commission team on Friday held a series of meetings, including with the Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee (MNCC), which has been spearheading a state-wide protest calling for removal of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and reinstatement of the ousted Principal Secretary (Home). “The EC team headed by Deputy[Read More…]
Aizwal: The Congress party has released its election manifesto for the upcoming state assembly polls on Thursday and promised to give free laptops to students who have passed class 10 and above if returns to power. Congress Chief Minister Lal Thanhawala released the election manifesto and pledged to continue with its[Read More…]
Ruling Congress party led by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla on Wednesday declared the names of its 40 candidates who will fight in the upcoming Mizoram assembly elections. Congress party in Mizoram under the leadership of Lal Thanhawala is contesting on all the 40 seats in the upcoming polls. There is a[Read More…]
Aizawl: Preparations to hold free and fair elections to the Mizoram Assembly are satisfactory, Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat said here on Wednesday. “Mizoram has always had an excellent record of holding free and fair elections. In the upcoming Assembly election, the state would once again establish its record[Read More…]
Aizawl: Ruling Congress continues to get setbacks in poll-bound Mizoram as former Minister and senior Congress leader Buddha Dhan Chakma on Tuesday left the party and is likely to join the BJP soon. Chakma has resigned from the state legislature and primary membership of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC).[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: The Election Commission Saturday announced dates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana. With the announcement of the poll dates by the ECI, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force with immediate effect. The election in Chhattisgarh will be held in[Read More…]
In an effort to stop Rohingya Muslims from entering India from the neighbouring country, eight additional companies of Assam Rifles have been deployed along the Mizoram-Myanmar border. The security was tightened on the commands of the Centre, a senior police official said on Tuesday. “Three companies of Assam Rifles included[Read More…]
Companies under the ownership of Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group are under scanner over the Rs 11,808 crore lottery scam in Mizoram in the North-East. As per reports, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India presented in the Mizoram assembly in December 2016, there was extensive negligence[Read More…]
