Mizoram Election Result 2023: ZPM chief Lalduhoma set to become CM? Who is he
Lalduhoma secured a clear victory in the Serchhip Assembly constituency of Mizoram. Lalduhoma is the chief ministrial candidate from the ZPM. He was pitted against MNF debutant J Malsawmzual Vanchhawng.
Meanwhile, the Congress had fielded R Vanlaltluanga from Serchhip who had earlier contested the Assembly polls in 2013 unsuccessfully. Follow Mizoram Election Results 2023 LIVE Updates here Lalduhoma told news agency ANI on Monday that he would be meeting the Mizoram Governor this week to stake claim to form the government in the state. "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I will meet the Governor...Swearing-in will be within this month," Lalduhoma was quoted as saying.
Follow Aizawl, Mizoram Assembly Election Results 2023 LIVE Updates here ZPM chief Lalduhoma, who is also the party's chief ministerial candidate, contested the Mizoram Assembly Election 2023 from Serchhip. In 2018, Lalduhoma secured 35.4 per cent votes, defeating the Congress' Lal Thanhawla which got 32.7 per cent votes. The ZPM leader had joined Congress after he had left his job as an IPS officer in 1984.
The same year he had contested the Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket and was elected unopposed. However, in 2020, he was disqualified under the anti-defection law, becoming the first legislator to have been disqualified under the law in the country. Lalduhoma had worked in the security of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
According to the Economic Times, he was reportedly sent by Indira Gandhi to hold negotiations with Mizo militant leader Laldenga in London and persuade him for peace talks. Laldenga then signed a peace accord in 1987 with then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the report said. This made Lalduhoma a key player in the birth of Mizoram
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