NDA ally MNF cites attacks on Christians, to keep away from BJP

AIZAWL: Mizoram chief minister and president of the governing Mizo National Front (MNF) Zoramthanga on Tuesday said his party will not work together with BJP in the coming election to the 40-member state legislature to be held on November 7, reports HC Vanlalruata.

Talking to TOI, Zoramthanga blamed the majority Meitei community for the alleged attacks on churches in Manipur, which is governed by the saffron party, and said: “This is not the time to be close to BJP.”

He said the people of Mizoram being Christians, it will have a negative impact on the go what has happened in Manipur. ning party in view of what has happened in Manipur.

The CM said he will not share stage with PM Modi when he comes to Mizoram for election campaign. Modi is scheduled to visit Mamit district on the Mizoram-Tripura- Bangladesh border for election campaign on October 30.Zoramthanga said MNF had joined the BJP-ledNDA and Neda (North-East Democratic Alliance) because of the fact that the party is strongly against the Congress-led UPA, now INDIA.

“I told the central government that we are just following in their footsteps as the Centre helped and armed refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan. We do not arm the refugees from Myanmar, but we provide them food and shelter,” he said.

Addressing party workers at the celebrations of the 62nd anniversary of the MNF’s formation, the party’s office in Aizawl, on Monday, Zoramthanga had said he was asked by the Centre to withdraw Mizoram Police from the Mizoram-Assam border. “I replied to them that I will rather resign as chief minister than withdraw our police from the border,” he added.

 

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