New Delhi: The Mizoram Assembly results are out and ironically there is not a single woman legislator in the current House. All the Fifteen female candidates have lost the November 28 election. Mizoram is a state where numbers of female voters are larger than Male voters. Mizo National Front has[Read More…]
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Mizoram Assembly Elections 2018: Final party position
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…]
MNF wins Mizoram, Congress’ last Northeast state
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…]
Mizoram Elections 2018 Live Updates: 42 VVPATs, 25 ballot units replaced
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…]
Mizoram Election: MNF Candidate asset jumped nearly 800 percent in last 5 years
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…]
Mizoram Election: PM Modi to visit amidst Congress statewide protest; security beefed up
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…]
Mizoram Polls: BJP candidate exposes church body’s double standards of expelling him
In the poll-bound State of Mizoram, Rev L R Colney, a former pastor and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, has been expelled by the Mission for Christ (MFC), a well-known parachurch in Mizoram. Rev Colney was an executive member of the body and a full-time missionary. In the first list of candidates[Read More…]
Congress declares candidates for Mizoram assembly election
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…]
Mizoram Assembly Polls 2018: Full schedule and dates
The Election Commission of India on Saturday announced the electoral exercise for Mizoram, where assembly, comprising of 40 members, ends on December 15, 2018. Chief Election Commissioner, OP Rawat stated that “Voting in Mizoram will take place on November 28, while counting of votes will take place on December 11”.[Read More…]