Mizoram CM Lalduhoma Witness to Myanmar Insurgents’ Merger Deal?

This is not the first time that CM Lalduhoma has been in news for his reaction to the Myanmar crisis and handling of the call for Kuki-Zo unity.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma has landed in a fresh controversy. Lalduhoma was reportedly present at a meeting in Aizawl where two Myanmar pro-democracy rebel groups signed a merger agreement last week. This has drawn the attention of central security agencies.

As per reports, the pro-democracy rebel groups, Chinland Council and the Interim Chin National Consultative Council merged under the banner of Chin National Council or CNC in Aizawl in the presence of Chief Minister Lalduhoma and a few other local leaders.

Reports say that CM Lalduhoma sat with the Myanmar rebel leaders, witnessed the signing of the agreement and even shook hands and posed for photographs with them.

The questions that arise here is that how a CM can sit with the rebel groups of another country, which is engaged in a civil war and was the Centre apprised of the development?

Well, when asked by a journalist as to why he attended the meeting, CM Lalduhoma reportedly said that it was his mission.

This is not the first time that CM Lalduhoma has been in news for his reaction to the Myanmar crisis and handling of the call for Kuki-Zo unity.

His speech in the US where he called for unity of the Zo people beyond political boundaries and nationhood under one leadership had given rise to a big controversy earlier last year.

Mizoram government sources had then countered the allegations claiming that Lalduhoma was focussing on reunification within India rather than political separation.

Lalduhoma has also been vocal against suspension of Free Movement regime with Myanmar.

The Chin “rebels” have been fighting against the military junta after the 2021 coup that snatched power from the democratically-elected Aung San Suu Kyi-led government. Factional clashes among the “rebel groups,” particularly in Chin state of Myanmar, have remained a worry for the “pro-democracy forces and the merger agreement signed in Aizawl is expected to give an impetus to the rebel’ fight against the military.

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