He was disqualified twice under the Anti-Defection Law of 1985 as a lawmaker. And he failed four times to provide Mizoram an alternative to the Congress, the party he had cut his political teeth in, and the Mizo National Front (MNF).
The belief that the Christian-majority Mizoram had space for a political party that would be “different” from both Congress and MNF bore fruit for Lalduhoma on Monday, 25 years after he set out to carve out a niche for the Zoram Nationalist Party, which eventually became the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) following a merger with five other regional parties.
