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Zoramthanga (born 13 July 1944) 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.
Zoramthanga is an Indian insurgent-turned-politician. A member of the Mizo National Front (MNF), he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Mizoram for the third time on 15 December 2018. Previously, he held the chief ministership of Mizoram for ten years, from 1998 to 2008.
Mizoram CM Zoramthanga was defeated from his seat Aizawl East I by rival candidate Lalthansanga, a leader of Zoram People's Movement.
Aug 8, 2021 · Since then, Zoramthanga has helped Mizoram emerge as NE’s most peaceful state. When it comes to land though, the 77-yr-old CM won’t back down, as Assam just found. His years as an armed insurgent are two decades in the past.
Dec 15, 2018 · In a free-wheeling chat with ET Magazine in Aizawl in the first week of October, Zoramthanga walked down the memory lane to share his experiences and retell a story of how he made a “James Bond type escape” during a raid by Indian forces in the Chittagong hills during the 1971 Bangladesh war.
Aug 12, 2023 · As a deputy of Laldenga, the indefatigable Mizo rebel leader and chief of the Mizo National Front (MNF), which carried out a secessionist movement, Zoramthanga spent much of his time running from...
Nov 3, 2023 · Under Zoramthanga, Mizoram has taken in over 40,000 refugees who fled from the junta rule in Myanmar, citing kinship and familial ties with the Chin people in the neighbouring country.
Dec 5, 2023 · Mizoram's outgoing chief minister Zoramthanga on Tuesday resigned as the Mizo National Front (MNF) president after a 33-year-long stint as its chief, following the party's defeat in the...
Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga on Tuesday made an emotional appeal to end violence in neighbouring Manipur, saying it was incumbent upon those responsible and law-abiding citizens or entities...
Jul 30, 2023 · As a former insurgent leader-turned-politician, Zoramthanga knows the implications of an ethnic strife too well. He, therefore, lost no time to wade into the troubled waters. He stood by...
