Team to meet ECI officials in New Delhi next month for registration
GUWAHATI: Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM), an alliance of six political parties, is looking to emerge stronger under a single platform and play and active role as the largest Opposition party in Mizoram.
The regional alliance, which announced its decision to merge into a single political party by next month, maintains it will be the “only alternative” to the incumbent Mizo National Front government, in the next Assembly elections.
Speaking to The Shillong Times on Sunday, ZPM leader, Lalduhoma reaffirmed his stance by saying that the party would be the “only alternative to form the next government in Mizoram.”
“We have been fighting together as six different parties all these years. The process to register ZPM as a single political party has already started and by July we shall emerge as one and even stronger. As an Opposition, we have seven seats in the state Assembly, while Congress has five,” he said.
A delegation of ZPM leaders will go to New Delhi to meet the Election Commission of India (ECI) on July 2 next.
“We have applied for registration of ZPM as a single party and a team is being deputed to attend a personal hearing in New Delhi next month. As of now, there is a technical issue with one of the alliance parties, Mizoram People’s Conference, as it has its own constitution. Hopefully, things would be sorted in the coming days,” Lalduhoma, the chief ministerial candidate who bagged two seats in the Assembly elections last year, said.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, ZPM had forged an alliance with Congress and together backed Independent candidate Lalnghinglova Hmar, who however was defeated by MNF candidate C. Lalrosanga by a margin of over 8,000 votes.
Subsequently, ZPM severed ties with Congress.
ZPM was initially formed by three parties – Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP), MPC and Zoram Exodus Movement (ZEM) in August, 2017. Later, Mizoram People’s Party (MPP), Zoram Reformation Front (ZRF) and Zoram Democratic Front (ZDF) joined the alliance.