Amid Souring Relations With Ally, BJP Tries to Break Mizoram Jinx
The BJP is trying to expand its footprint in Mizoram amid many challenges, including a rough patch in its relation with ally Mizo National Front or MNF.
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The BJP is trying to expand its footprint in Mizoram amid many challenges, including a rough patch in its relation with ally Mizo National Front or MNF.
Youth unemployment in Mizoram surpasses the national average.
''BJP value neither diversity, nor democracy, nor dialogue. They want to impose uniformity across India. In Parliament, the BJP forces laws which weaken the rights of tribals to their lands and forests and does not even allow the Mizoram MP to speak,'' Sonia Gandhi alleged in the video.
The MHA had in April asked the Manipur and Mizoram governments to collect biographic and biometric data of "illegal migrants" in the two states and complete the process by September this year. Following the request of the Manipur government, the timeframe was later extended by a year.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said a vote for the Mizo National Front (MNF) or the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) is actually a vote for the BJP. "JP Nadda and Nitin Gadkari are now finding fault with their ally MNF in Mizoram, which is a part of the NDA. This is sheer hypocrisy! They merrily went along MNF's non-performance and corruption over the past five years, and are now finding fault.