Mizoram polls mark key shifts with rise of Indira-era IPS Lalduhoma, decimation of Congress

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The Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM), a party less than a decade old, has stormed to power in Mizoram, unseating the Mizo National Front (MNF). In Ep 1360 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses why the ZPM’s win is noteworthy, and the remarkable life of its chief and Mizoram CM-elect Lalduhoma.

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1:22 Mizoram is the southernmost state of the northeastern region

3:04 Lalduhoma is the chief minister-elect

10:02 It was quite evident that Laldenga wanted peace and he was able to prevail over his hawks

15:08 Lalduhoma will be first CM not connected to MNF in a long time

18:09 Mizoram is a Christian-majority state, 88% of its population is Christian

21:29 ‘It is true that we fought for sovereignty but sovereignty by itself does not mean freedom’.

22:38 B. Vanlalzari released her diary as a book last year
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