Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Aizawl, October 29 2008:
IF THE POWERFUL Women Welfare Front (WWF) of Mizoram has their way and the statistics of the electorates fall on the gender basis during the November 29 poll, the colourful inning of chief minister Zoramthanga in politics will face a hiccup this time.
In the backdrop of the influential Women Welfare Front (WWF)'s extensive campaigns for more seats of women in the Mizoram Legislative Assembly and the good response from the general public coupled with the outnumbering of female voters over males, a charismatic and dynamic young and unmarried Mizo woman is going to face chief minister and Mizo National Front (MNF) candidate Zoramthanga in the November 29 assembly election.
A 32-year-old H Lalhmingthangi, a highly qualified Mizo woman working currently in a church organisation in Shillong has come back to Mizoram few days back and she has been finalised as the Zoram National Party (ZNP) candidate for the Champhai assembly constituency, the 'traditional' constituency of Zoramthanga.
ZNP is a constituent unit of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), a newly formed platform of Mizoram Peoples' Conference (MPC), Zoram National Party (ZNP) and a powerful farmers' union called Zoram Kuthnathawktu Pawl (ZKP) under which banner these three political parties of Mizoram will face MNF and the Congress party.
A report in Aizawl speculated that the WWF is fully putting its weight behind H Lalhmingthangi.
This report is significant as more than half the total number of voters in the whole of Mizoram are females.
Mizoram has little over six lakhs voters.
Meanwhile, a reliable source said today that chief minister Zoramthanga may switch over to some 'safe' constituency if Miss H Lalmingthangi is fielded in the Champhai assembly constituency against him.
This report suggests that the WWF's campaign for more seats of women in the state assembly has been creating wave and the chief minister and MNF leader Zoramthanga has become panicky.