Laldenga

Pu Laldenga ( * 1937, † July 8, 1990 ) was an Indian guerrillas of the Mizo National Front and 1986-1989 Chief Minister of Mizoram.

Journey

Pu Laldenga was a bank employee. Since 1955, he led the Mizo Cultural Society. He took the view that the Mizo Indians were not really, even the colonial masters would be so little care of them. As in the 52 - to 54 - year intervals recurring bamboo flowering ( mautam ) had turn out in 1959 in the inhabited by Mizo area because of a high rate of rodents to two years' famine, he founded under his chairmanship the Mizoram Famine Front ( MFF), the of the State Government of Assam demanded support.

This organization, which soon enjoyed great prestige because of their support activities among the population, was a political party, the Mizo National Front converted. After the government side help soon proved to be defective, the independence of the small strain was required, but this is not taken seriously by the Indians until the rebellion broke out.

Armed struggle

Henceforth Laldenga led the armed struggle of the jungle his mountainous home region. He was arrested in 1965 when he smuggled weapons from East Pakistan, but released soon. Like all MNF- squad, he went into exile in 1969 after East Pakistan, where he lived in Dhaka. Before the Indian invasion in 1971, he was able to escape at the last minute on a speedboat towards Chittagong and escaped through Karachi to Islamabad, where he stayed until 1976.

After initial peace feelers were successful, he returned in January 1976 to Delhi. When the MNF was banned by the government of Indira Gandhi on 22 January 1982, and he was out of prison. Only in 1986, however, it came to a peace agreement.

Politician

Laldenga was on 21 August 1986 - even before the actual founding of the state of Mizoram as the beginning of 1987 - Chief Minister. His party won the first elections, so that he retained the office. Soon accusations of corruption were loud and it left many party members, the fraction so that he lost his position again on September 7, 1988.

He died the age of 53 from lung cancer and was buried on 13 July 1990.

Literature and sources

• Hazarika, Sanjoy; Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India 's Northeast; New Delhi, inter alia, 1994