The 8th Mizoran Legislative Assembly was constituted in 2018 and held twelve sessions before being succeeded by the 9th assembly in 2024. [1] It represented the northeastern state of Mizoram, India. The Mizo National Front, led by Pu Zoramthanga, won an absolute majority. Pu Lalrinliana Sailo served as Speaker. [2]
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Zoram Nationalist Party is a political party in Mizoram, India. The party was formerly known as Mizo National Front (Nationalist). It was founded by former MP Lalduhoma. MNF(N) was formed in 1997 through a split in the Mizo National Front.
The Government of Mizoram also known as the State Government of Mizoram, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Mizoram and its 11 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Mizoram, a judiciary and a legislative branch.
Lalduhoma is an Indian politician who serves as the 6th Chief Minister of Mizoram since 8 December 2023. Formerly an Indian Police Service officer, he resigned from the security service to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and was elected as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha from Mizoram and President of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee in 1984. He however left the party from which he was elected two years later, for which he was disqualified from the Parliament. He became the first MP in India to be discharged based upon its anti-defection law.
Brigadier Ṭhenphunga Sailo, AVSM (1922–2015) was an Indian military officer and politician who served as the 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram. He founded the Mizoram People's Conference, one of the major political parties in Mizoram. He was a recipient of Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and Padma Shri for his military service and humanitarian works, and the Mizo Award for his lifetime achievements.
Vanglaini is a daily newspaper in Mizoram, northeast India, published in the Mizo language. It is registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India. It is owned, edited, and published by K. Sapdanga. It remains the newspaper in Mizoram with the largest circulation.
Zoramthanga is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Mizoram from 1998 to 2008 and 2018 to 2023. He is also the president of Mizo National Front (MNF) party. He represents the Aizawl East I constituency in the Mizoram Legislative Assembly since 2018 and Champhai constituency from 1998 to 2008.
The Zoram People's Movement is an alliance of six regional parties formed under the leadership of MLA and former IPS Officer Lalduhoma. The party advocates for secularism and the protection of religious minorities in India. In the 2023 Mizoram Assembly polls, the party won 27 seats out of 40 seats and Lalduhoma became the Chief Minister of Mizoram.
Serchhip is one of the 40 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Mizoram state in India. it has been a constituency since the first elections in the state in 1972.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Mizoram on 7 November 2023 to elect all 40 members of Mizoram Legislative Assembly, which had 174 candidates and saw 80.66% voter turnout. The votes were counted on 4 December 2023 which showed the Zoram People's Movement's victory winning 27 seats out of 40.
The Lalduhoma ministry represents the formation of the cabinet of the Indian state Mizoram under the leadership of Lalduhoma, who is elected as the second Chief Minister of Mizoram. The Zoram People's Movement (ZPM), led by Lalduhoma, secured an absolute majority in the 2023 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, winning 27 out of the 40 seats in the state assembly.
Lalrinpuii is an Indian politician in the state of Mizoram. She is currently serving as an MLA from Lunglei East constituency of Lunglei district. She is the first woman to become a minister of Mizoram with cabinet rank on 8 December 2024 when she took oath as the Minister for health, social welfare and tribal affairs, women and child development, and tourism portfolios.
K. Sapdanga is an Indian politician and a journalist who is elected as a Member of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly in December 2023 from Aizawl North 3 Assembly constituency. He is a Cabinet Minister under the Zoram People's Movement government led by Lalduhoma, as Chief Minister. with the following portfolios allocated to him - Home Department, Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation Department, Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms and Disaster Management & Rehabilitation Department. He is the working president of Zoram People's Movement.
Professor Lalnilawma is an academic and politician from Mizoram, India. He is currently the Minister of State for Rural Development, Horticulture and Public Health Engineering. He is the professor of Rural Development at Mizoram University. He was elected to the Mizoram Legislative Assembly from Tawi constituency in the 2023 general election as Zoram People's Movement candidate.
F. Rodingliana is an Indian politician from Mizoram, who is currently the Minister of State for Power & Electricity Commerce & Industries Department and Printing & Stationery Department for the Government of Mizoram.
Vanlalhlana is an Indian politician from Mizoram, who is currently the Cabinet Minister for Public Works, Transport and Parliamentary Affairs Department for the Government of Mizoram.
Lalthansanga is an Indian politician from Mizoram, who is currently the Cabinet Minister for Environment Forests & Climate Change, Sericulture, Fisheries, Land Resources, Soil & Water Conservation Departments for the Government of Mizoram.
Lalfamkima is an Indian politician from Mizoram. Representing the Zoram People's Movement, he is the current Deputy Speaker of Mizoram Legislative Assembly.
Lalmuanpuia Punte is a Hmar politician currently serving as a political Advisor to Lalduhoma, the Chief Minister of Mizoram. He is also an MLA in the 9th Mizoram Legislative Assembly from Hrangturzo Assembly constituency and is from the Zoram People's Movement party, the current ruling party in Mizoram.
T. B. C. Lalvenchhunga is an Indian politician from Mizoram. He is an MLA from Aizwal West 1 Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribes community, in Aizwal District. He won the 2023 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, representing the Zoram People's Movement.