Aizawl, Oct 13: Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), the apex Mizo student body, will oppose the candidature of women who are married to non-tribal communities as such women have forsaken their tribal identity.
MZP President H. Lalthianghlima, while addressing the Press Conference in Aizawl on Friday, said that they received information that some women, married to non-tribal community members have been trying to contest the coming Mizoram assembly elections due by the end of the year.
“The MZP will oppose the candidacy of women who married outside the tribal community,” the President said.
The MZP appealed to all the political parties not to contest any women married to non-tribal, whether white men or non-tribal Indians as it would polarize the Mizo society.
“The state legislature being the outcome of the revolutionary movement which had cost a number of our brave revolutionaries, we will never allow a non-tribal to have a seat inside the assembly house,” the MZP president said.
Such women may be highly educated and have the capacity to bring development, the state and the people do not need them as they will destroy the social fabric and have the Mizo tribe assimilated.
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He said that there are many states where the natives have been decimated to a minority by more developed communities in their own lands and the students would never allow that to happen in Mizoram.
“We will never allow any women married to non-tribal community getting tickets in the elections in the state,” he added.
Among 40 assembly constituencies in Mizoram, except for the Aizawl East-I seat, the rest are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
MNF and ZPM already declared their candidate and there are no women candidates who are married to non-Mizo. Sources said that Mizoram Congress will put Meriam L. Hrangchal who is married to a non-Mizo as their Lunglei South constituency, The Congress is expected to announce their official candidate during Rahul Gandhi’s visit.
