MNF's support to the BJP-led NDA is only issue-based: Mizoram CM Zoramthanga

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Mizo National Front (MNF) Zoramthanga said on Saturday that the party's support to the BJP-led NDA is only issue-based. MNF is an ally NDA. The party is yet to decide if it will leave NDA.

MNF supported the no-confidence motion moved in the Lok Sabha by the grand opposition alliance. Addressing party workers here, Zoramthanga said the lone MNF Lok Sabha member from Mizoram — C. Lalrosanga — supported the opposition’s no-confidence motion as the party is dissatisfied with the Centre’s handling of the Manipur issue.

“We supported the NDA as we cannot be a part of the Congress-led alliance. However, our support to the NDA is only issue-based and we would oppose the alliance if and when it goes against the interests of the Mizo people as a whole. " He said that MNF initially opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), but later supported it after Mizoram was exempted from its purview.

He announced that the party MPs in both the Houses of the Parliament will oppose the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) if it is introduced for legislation. The Chief Minister said that the MNF government opposed the Centre's order to deport Myanmarese refugees to their country and allowed them to take shelter in the state. Around 35,000 Myanmar nationals, including children and women, have taken shelter in Mizoram since February 2021 after the Myanmar military, following a coup, took over the governance there.

The Mizoram government had sought Rs 10 crore from the Centre as humanitarian assistance to provide relief to the Myanmar refugees, but the Central government sanctioned only Rs 3 crore, he said. “There are no other political parties like the MNF which dares to go against PM Modi,” Zoramthanga pointed out. Zoramthanga, however, had recently