Mizoram Election Results: MNF returns to power after 10 years, Congress loses its last bastion in Northeast
December 11, 2018 17:47 ISTWith the results, the Congress has now lost power in all the seven states in the northeast.
With the results, the Congress has now lost power in all the seven states in the northeast.
In the eight district headquarters, counting will begin at 13 counting centres, Kundra said.
The results of the crucial assembly polls in five states, seen as a semi-final to next year's Lok Sabha elections, are set to be declared on December 11.
The saffron party will win the 2019 elections because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hard work and then no one can dethrone it for the next 50 years, Shah had said at the party’s National Executive meet in September.
The state had an electorate of 7,70,395, which included 3,94,897 female voters. There were 209 candidates, 15 of them women, in the fray.
Lalramhluna, an Executive Engineer (Highways) of PWD, the presiding officer at Sachan polling station in Thorang seat came to collect polling materials at Saikuti Hall after consuming alcohol.
Only 18 or merely nine per cent of the candidates are female.
If the BJP is voted to power, it would develop infrastructure including roads in the bordering state of Mizoram, Singh said.
The order came after a high-level Election Commission team held meetings last week, including with the Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee (MNCC), which had been spearheading the state-wide protests for Shashank's removal and reinstatement of the ousted Principal Secretary (Home).
The names suggested by the government were -- Lalhmingthanga, H Lalengmawia and K Lalthawmmawia -- the official said on the condition of anonymity.
The team, led by Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain, would be visiting the state two days after the CEO was summoned to Delhi by the EC.
The ruling Congress, the opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have fielded candidates in all the 40 constituencies, while the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) will contest 35 seats, sources in the parties said.
The party had moved the plea citing the law and order situation in the northeastern state.
Earlier, Hiphei on Monday had resigned from his post, the House as well as the Congress, and joined the BJP, saying its central leadership had promised to enhance powers of the state's autonomous district councils.
He is the fifth Congress MLA to resign from the 40-member House since September.
The last date for filing of nominations is November 9 and scrutiny of nominations will be on November 12, 2018.
Results for Mizoram Assembly elections 2018 will be declared on December 11 along with results of Assembly elections in four other states - Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan.
In the election manifesto released by Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla in Aizawl, the party also pledged to continue with its two flagship programmes for farmers and youths.
Lal Thanhawla will contest from the Champhai South (ST) and Serchhip (ST) seats -- both reserved for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category.
The Brus have been lodged in the camps since 1997 following exodus from Mizoram due to communal tension triggered by the murder of a forest official by Bru militants.
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