BJP president prof JV Hluna said the photo was taken in the Raj Bhawan in Meghalaya when Conrad Sangma was sworn in as the CM. However, he hit out at Zoramthanga and accused him of being opportunistic.
With the polls in Mizoram just days away, the electoral fight in the tiny Northeastern state looks like a four-cornered one. But a closer look will reveal that keeping aside the Congress, the other three parties share close ties with the BJP.
The parties in the fray are the Congress, the Mizo National Front (MNF), the National Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), and the National People's Front, apart from the BJP. While the MNF is an ally of the BJP at the Centre, the NDPP and NPP have respectively formed governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya in alliance with the BJP. Additionally, NPP had extended crucial help in forming the BJP government in Manipur.
While most of the electoral pitch in the Christian-majority state is against the saffron party, with the Congress and the MNF accusing each other of being in touch with the BJP, Mizoram is perhaps the only state where the BJP and the Congress have joined hands electorally. In April this year, the BJP came to power at the Chakma Autonomous District Council with the support of six Congress members. The goal was to keep the MNF out.
This poll season, the MNF has left no stones unturned to remind voters of that. To the point the Congress had to publicly declare that it is in no alliance with the BJP.
The Congress, too, has been pursuing an intensive campaign against the MNF, accusing it of being the BJP's B-team. Recently, Congress workers released a Mizo booklet showing MNF leader and former CM Zoramthanga sitting with BJP president Amit Shah.
BJP president prof JV Hluna said the photo was taken in the Raj Bhawan in Meghalaya when Conrad Sangma was sworn in as the CM. However, he hit out at Zoramthanga and accused him of being opportunistic.
"Zoramthanga was present in the first two NEDA conference, but he was absent in the third. I don't know the reason why, but I saw that on that day, he was present at the court with regards to the hearing over the death of Rev Chanchinmawia (former Mizoram Presbyterian Synod moderator and pastor of Khatla Presbyterian Church who was found dead a decade ago)," said Hluana. "In Aizawl, he criticises BJP, but in Guwahati and Delhi, he maintains cordial relations with the national leaders."
Cong’s Lone N-E Bastion
- For the BJP and Congress, including its CM Thanhawla (left), Mizoram presents an important N-E frontier.
- For Congress, its government in all Northeastern states, barring Mizoram has been wrestled by the BJP.
- And for the BJP, Mizoram is the last state it needs to conquer to complete its takeover of the Northeast.
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