Aizawl, May 20 : UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were among the leaders who wished Mizoram Chief minister Lal Thanhawla as the four-time chief minister became 73 years today.
An official statement said Governor Lt. Gen M M Lakhera, members of the council of ministers, legislators and prominent citizens in the state and also from outside wished Lal Thanhawla 'happy birthday' and the day was celebrated by cutting a birthday cake.
Lal Thanhawla, who first became the Chief Minister in 1984, vacated his seat to bring peace in trouble-torn Mizoram and also to facilitate the erstwhile underground Mizo National Front (MNF) leader Laldenga to become the chief minister in the interim government in 1986.
The Congress party led by him won the state assembly elections in 1989 after Laldenga government was toppled in 1988 and also in 1993 which enabled him to become chief minister for two consecutive terms.
He was voted out of power in the 1998 assembly polls and the MNF-led by Zoramthanga ruled the state for a decade after which Lal Thanhawla again won a landslide victory in the 2008 state assembly polls by bagging 32 seats of the 40-member assembly.
Birthday Boy: Pu Lalthanhawla
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