Mizoram: MNF will romp back to power for 2nd consecutive term with more than 25 seats, says CM Zoramthanga

Guwahati: Mizoram Chief Minister and ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) President Zoramthanga on Friday said that MNF will romp back to power for second consecutive term with more than 25 seats in the 40-member Assembly in the November 7 elections.

Zoramthanga filed his nomination from the Aizawl East-1 seat, Zoramthanga said that his party’s main opponent was the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) and not the Congress. “The ZPM has a grassroot base. Every election is challenging, so is this election. However, the MNF will return to power with a comfortable majority. We would win 25 seats in the elections,” he said.

The Zoramthanga is looking for a fourth term as the Chief Minister.


The militant leader-turned-politician since 1987 has been elected to the state Assembly six times and was Chief Minister for three terms (1998-2008 and 2018-2023). In the 2018 Assembly polls.

Refuting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s accusation that both MNF and ZPM are instrumental in the entry of the BJP in Mizoram and both parties follow the BJP and RSS’ ideologies, he said that these allegations were absolutely wrong and “we always follow MNF ideology”.

He said that the MNF was an ally of the NDA at the Centre and has no electoral and political relations with the Congress. “The ideologies of the BJP and the MNF are completely different and the MNF is an independent party and does not come under the control of any other party,” Zoramthanga clarified.

In the present assembly the ruling MNF has 28 seats, while the ZPM has six seats, the Congress five and the BJP one.