By: Manzar Alam


The ruling MNF, which has a comfortable majority of 22 MLAS in the Assembly of 40 members, is facing the strong anti-incumbency wave against it more than its opponents in this election.
“The people are fed up with the MNF’s tall promises and failure to deliver. Mizo people pinned a lot of hopes in the MNF government as it failed to open employment avenues for youth and also failed in devloping the state. Growing dissatisfaction of the salaried class remain the ruling party’s "troubled zones". The party is also yet to come clean on the Congress allegations of abetting gunrunners in the State.
People are slowly getting convinced about misuse of Central development fund by the MNF government with the opposition parties charging the ruling party of corruption at the expense of development. In this backdrop the educated section of the voters in urban areas in the State are amused as the MNF continues to make tall promises in case they are elected to rule for the next five years. It hasn’t been a smooth sailing for the Congress because of intra-party squabbles and corruption charges hanging over the head of PCC chief and former Chief Minister Lalthanhawla. The people of Mizoram haven’t forgotten the misrule of Congress government during the period from 1989 to 1998. It will be very hard for the party to convince people that it won’t indulge in corruption once it comes back to power. Congress is very much seized of it and that is why the PCC chief Lalthanhawla who himself is facing corruption charges, has decided to fight from two constituencies “Sarchip” and “ Champai”