Zoram People's Movement
AbbreviationZPM
LeaderLalduhoma
PresidentLalliansawta
Founded2017 (registered party in 2019; recognized state party in 2023)
HeadquartersAizawl, Mizoram
Youth wingZPM Ṭhalai
Women's wingZPM Zonu
IdeologyAnti Hindutva-Nationalism[1]
Factions:
Secularism[2]
Conservative Christianity[3]
Christian right[4]
Other minorities rights[5]
ColoursYellow
ECI StatusState Party
AllianceUnited Progressive Alliance (2019)[6]
Seats in Lok Sabha
0 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 245
Seats in Mizoram Legislative Assembly
27 / 40
Election symbol

The Zoram People's Movement (abbreviated: ZPM) is an alliance of six regional parties formed under the leadership of MLA and former IPS Officer Lalduhoma.[7] The party believes in secularism and the protection of religious minorities in India.[8] In 2023 Mizoram Assembly polls, the party won 27 seats out of 40 seats and Lalduhoma became the Chief Minister of Mizoram.[9]

In the 2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, Zoram People's Movement had emerged. It supported some independent candidates with the same symbol, flag and policy, and won 8 seats.[10] Zoram People's Movement was reformed as a political party from a movement group. Mizoram People's Conference left the alliance in 2019[11] due to ZPM becoming a political party.

In 2020, some members of ZNP left the alliance due to the election of their party, along with issues assigning a new party leader and reforming Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP).

In 2023, the party won all 11 wards in the newly formed Lunglei Municipal Council.[10]

Office Bearers

  • President: Pu Lalliansawta
  • Working President: Pu K. Sapdanga
  • Vice Presidents: Dr. Kenneth Chawngliana, Pu Lalthansanga, Rev. Dr. K. Thanzauva.
  • Treasurer: Pu C. Lalṭanpuia.

History

Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) contested 36 out of 40 seats in Mizoram assembly polls, and won 8 seats in the 2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election.[12] The Zoram People's Movement has been created to create a political alternative to the Mizo National Front and the Indian National Congress in Mizoram.[13] They fought the election on the platform of re-imposing a ban on liquor.[14][15] The Zoram People's Movement was officially registered with Election Commission of India in July 2019[16] after submitting a request on January 21, 2019.[17] In the 2023 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, the party won 27 out of 40 seats and formed the government.

Member parties

Zoram People's Movement started as an alliance movement with 6 regional parties, the members are Mizoram People's Conference, Zoram Nationalist Party, Zoram Exodus Movement, Zoram Decentralisation Front, Zoram Reformation Front and Mizoram People's Party. Later all these parties merged into a single entity. In 2019 ZPM registered in Election Commission as a political party.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  2. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  3. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  4. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  5. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  6. ↑ "Zoram People's Movement snaps ties with Congress in Mizoram".
  7. ↑ https://thewire.in/politics/mizoram-zpm-znp-alliance-quit
  8. ↑ "ZPM Congress Candidate announce name". Sapdanga said the desire to sustain secularism and protect Christianity have brought the ZPM and Congress together. He alleged that the BJP has a hidden agenda of making India into a Hindu kingdom by suppressing all other religious minorities.
  9. ↑ "Lalduhoma to form government in Mizoram".
  10. 1 2 Karmakar, Rahul (13 December 2018). "Zoram People's Movement hurt Congress more than Mizo National Front in Mizoram". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "Mizoram People's Conference ended ties with Zoram People's Movement in Mizoram". eastmojo. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  12. ↑ "Mizoram Assembly Election Results: Congress loses last North East bastion as MNF rides anti-incumbency wave to win". First Post. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  13. ↑ "New alliance Zoram Peoples Movement in Mizoram". Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  14. ↑ "Zoram People's Movement pledges to ban liquor in Mizoram". NENOW. 3 July 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  15. ↑ "Regional grouping ZPM may dent Congress, MNF, BJP poll prospects in Mizoram". The HIndustan Times. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  16. ↑ "Zoram People's Movement: Mizoram's newest regional party". east mojo. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  17. ↑ "Recognised party nih dilna ZPM-in ECI-ah an thehlut". vanglaini. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
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