Bail of HPC-D leaders is court’s authority: ZNP

Aizawl : Hitting back at the Mizoram Congress and the Young Mizo Association’s (YMA) for supporting Home Minister R. Lalzirliana remarks that “the two arrested Hmar Peoples’ Convention-D leaders would be granted bail by the government only if they promise to follow the government terms,” Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) said that “whenever one appeal for ‘release on bail’, it is the court’s decision whether to release or not; and this is not the decision the government can take.”

The ZNP said that the Congress government has violated the very basis of the Constitution of India and that it has lost the confidence of the people of the state.

ZNP party Sr. Vice President R.Lalawia said Home Minister Lalzirliana’s remarks could be taken as “contempt of court”.

“This is a legal issue, not a political issue as some groups/ NGO, even by taking it as a bias for the HPC-D,” the party said in a press statement on Saturday.

The opposition party also said that such remarks has created “complete misunderstandings”.

The procedure of ‘release on bail’ for any citizen of India arrested by the police, is clearly mentioned in section 436 – 439 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), ZNP stated, adding, “Through this law, the court realease or do not release on bail; it is not the power of the government”.

Stating that the “enmity” that began between the CYMA and HPC (D), “is in fact not even from the statement of CYMA Committee, but only from one leader of CYMA; therefore, all the Branch YMA, and all the seals be returned back to its normal state,” ZNP said.

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Mizo Zirlai Pawl to conduct census of 'foreigners'

AIZAWL: Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo Students' Federation on Thursday decided to conduct a census of the population of "foreigners" in Mizoram, especially Chakmas, who, it alleged, illegally migrated to the state.

At a meeting of its Federal Council at Tlabung, a town in Lunglei district along the the Mizoram-Bangladesh border, the MZP also urged the Chakma Autonomous District Council authorities to allow only bona fide residents to settle in the state while implementing resettlement of people displaced by Indo-Bangladesh border fencing. The students' body also decided to take steps to ensure that Mizo couples produce more children to preserve their ethnicity, a source said.

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Mizo body wants stray dog remark discussed in House

AIZAWL: The Former Legislators' Association of Mizoram (FLAM) is making efforts to ensure that the 'insulting' remarks of a legislator in the Punjab assembly against Mizoram and Nagaland on stray dogs be deliberated in the Mizoram assembly, scheduled to begin on July 16.

The FLAM sent letters to presidents of the ruling Congress, the Mizo National Front (MNF), the Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) and the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) urging them to take up the matter in the legislature.

"We appealed to the presidents of the political parties to move a private resolution in the state legislature on the issue to ensure deliberation of the 'insulting' remarks of the Punjab MLA," KL Rochama, FLAM leader said.

Congress legislator Ajit Singh Mofar moved a resolution in the Punjab assembly on June 28 seeking to tackle the stray dog problem in the state by sending them to China, Mizoram or Nagaland for "whatever they do to them". "We can make arrangements to catch the dogs, put them in jungle or zoos or send them to China, Nagaland and Mizoram where they are needed," he was reported as saying.

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MZP to conduct head-count of 'foreigners'

Aizawl, Jul 12 : Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo Students Federation today decided to conduct census of the population of foreigners in Mizoram, especially Chakmas who, it alleged, illegally migrated to the state, MZP sources said.

At a meeting of its Federal Council at Tlabung, a town in Lunglei district along the Mizoram-Bangladesh border, the MZP also urged the Chakma Autonomous District Council authorities to allow only bona fide residents to settle in the state while implementing resettlement of people displaced by Indo-Bangladesh border fencing.

The student body also decided to take steps to ensure that Mizo couples produce more children better preserve their ethnicity amidst others, the sources said.

The MZP was also of the view that the State Council of Education, Research and Training (SCERT) should produce text books which stressed unity among the ethnic Mizos, the sources said.

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Chidambaram says Mizoram did its duty to bring back Brus

Aizawl, Jul 11 : Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today received a pat on the back from Union Home Minister P Chidambaram over the state government's efforts in repatriation of Bru refugees from relief camps in Tripura.

The Mizoram government fulfilled its responsibilities to bring back the refugees, an official statement quoting Chidambaram said here today.

The Home Minister said some of the Mizo leaders created problems by opposing and obstructing the process for their own personal benefits.

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Hmar students in Mizoram cry discrimination

Aizawl, Jul 6 : The Hmar Students' Association (HSA) has demanded that the government of Mizoram stop "segregating" the Hmar people. In a memorandum submitted to the Mizoram government through Kolasib district deputy commissioner on Tuesday, the Hmar students' body reacted to the direction of state government of Mizoram to take measures not to allot/issue house passes to the 'Hmar refugees'; measures to segregate them from the local population and not to issue job cards under MGNREGS to the Hmars in Mizoram and measures be taken not to enroll the Hmar refugees in the ensuing special revision of electoral roll, 2012 in Mizoram. The memorandum stated that Mizoram chief secretary Vanhela Pachuau, along with officials from various departments, had a meeting on October 20, 2011 and derived a segregationist resolution against the Hmar tribe.

The meeting directed the home department to take necessary actions against the Hmar tribe on mentioned above points, the memorandum alleged.

" The order, by ostracizing the Hmar tribe, spelt out measures to deny the community of their constitutional and citizenship rights. It stands against the rightful interests of a community whose rights and entitlement cannot be suppressed by a bias and unjust order. The insensitive order is detrimental to the unity and integration of the Mizos; it stands opposed to the collective interests of the same and negates the Hmar tribe of their fundamental rights. The assented order is parallel to the Nuremberg Laws that was dictated by Adolf Hitler under the Nazis, " said the memorandum.

The memorandum further stated that the Hmar peoples cannot be "refugees" in Mizoram; and shall never be. Taking strong exception to the government order, the students body alleged that it amounts to a pogrom and genocide of Hmar peoples' rights.

" The Government of Mizoram is doggedly institutionalising injustice against the Hmar peoples with the uncalled-for order, " said the memorandum signed by HSA general headquarters president Lalthlamuana Hmar.

The students' body demanded the Mizoram home department to immediately abrogate and withdraw its 'inhumane order' and secure the rights and entitlement of the Hmar peoples of Mizoram according to the Constitution of India; stop targeting the Hmar peoples' as outsiders or "refugees"; stop segregating the Hmar peoples' and the Hmar peoples' of Mizoram be granted the rights to house pass/site, job card under MGNREGS and register in the electoral roll/census.

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Mizoram CM, ministers to campaign for Pranab

Aizawl: Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and majority of his members of council of ministers Thursday left Aizawl for Guwahati reportedly to campaign for UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, sources in the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee said.

Except for Home minister R. Lalzirliana, Finance minister H Liansailova, Transport Minister P C Zoramsangliana, Health Minister Lalrinliana Sailo and Parliamentary secretary to the CMO Lal Thanzara,and those out of station, all the ministers and parliamentary secretaries accompanied Lal Thanhawla.

Mukherjee's opponent, Purno A. Sangma being a tribal from the north east and also a Christian by faith prompted the Congress bigwigs in the Christian-dominated tribal state to launch massive campaign for the UPA nominee, the sources said.

Meanwhile, opposition regional parties like the Mizo National Front and the Mizoram People's Conference have announced that their legislators would vote for Sangma as he belonged to a scheduled tribe from the north east and a Christian.

The two parties also made appeal to all the MPs and the MLAs in the north east region to support Sangma's candidature.

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