Opposition Mizoram People’s Conference (MPC) refuted reports that party would again join hands with the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) to form a coalition government in the State. Addressing party workers at the MPC office, Opposition leader in the State legislature and party president Lalhmingthanga, said that people should know the consequences of the MNF’s poor performance. However, he said that  the  MPC desired  that the ruling party completed its full term in office. Lalhmingthanga, the former deputy chief minister in the Zoramthanga-led MNF-MPC coalition government during 1998-99, said that the reports were part of a political game plan hatched by some political parties.

The veteran MNF leader and Local Administration Minister H. Vanlalauva said that there was a move by the Mizoram Foundation Forum, which helped forge a pre-electoral alliance between the MNF and the MPC in 1998 Assembly polls, to bring the two parties together. “The MIFF, a non-political organisation, approached the MNF and also informed us that they had also approached the MPC in order to find ways to renew the ties,” Vanlalauva said. The MIFF leaders said that they had indeed approached the parties to revive their ties. Chief Minister Zoramthanga told the MIFF delegation that the MNF had no objection to renewing ties.
     
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