Mizoram Needs Non-Mizo National Front , Non-Congress Govt: Lalduhawma

Aizawl, Mar 3 : Mizoram desperately needs a popular government which is neither a Mizo National Front nor a Congress dispensation, Zoram Nationalist Party supremo Lalduhawma said.

''It is high time that the people give retrospection on the governments run by MNF and Congress, both marred by political revenge. Leaders of either party, which is not in power, have corruption cases clamped against them,'' Mr Lalduhawma, told at a press conference here.

''As this has become a tradition, it is very likely that once the MNF comes back to power, the Congress party leaders are bound to have criminal cases against them,'' he said.

''Therefore, what the people of Mizoram need now most is a government run by neither the Congress party nor the MN,'' Mr Lalduhawma said, projecting his party as the only option.

Lalduhawma, whose party ZNP is now backing the ruling Congress in the Aizawl Municipal Council, made it clear that the ZNP would never merge with the Congress.

''There are rumours that the Congress has bought the ZNP leaders which has disheartened many of our supporters. I want to make it very clear that those are baseless propagandas spread by people brought up in school of deceit,'' Mr Lalduhawma said.

By 'school of deceit', he apparently referred to the MNF.

Despite that it has never been in power, the ZNP is the toughest party in Mizoram which sticks to its policy and ideology.

''We will never sell the party’s policy and dignity,'' he stated.

Claiming that the number of neutral voters--who side neither with the Congress nor MNF--was growing day by day, the ZNP supremo stated that his party was gearing up to be the last resort for these neutral voters.

''The neutral voters are large enough to decide which party forms the next government, and it is very clear which parties they have disliked,'' he claimed.

Regretting that the ruling party and the opposition in Mizoram are always at daggers drawn, he said, ''The ZNP will always support any policy of the government which is good for the people and will be most unfriendly to the wrongdoings.'' Saying that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People has revived the dying hope for self-determination for the Mizos, the ZNP chief claimed that his party, with its unique reunification and economic policies, would emerge as the right party for Mizos.

''The Congress has seldom been filled with Mizo nationalism while the MNF has shed it. Now the responsibility (to uphold Mizo nationalism) has been thrust on our shoulders,'' he said.