Zoramthanga
Pu Zoramthanga ( born July 13, 1944 at village Samthang ) is leader of the Indian regional party Mizo National Front (MNF ) and was December 3, 1998 to December 11, 2008 ten years chief minister of the Indian state of Mizoram.
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Journey
Pu Zoramthanga is the second youngest child of Pu and Pi Darphunga Vanhnuaichhingi. He has five brothers and three sisters. After elementary and middle school he attended from 1957, the high school in Champhai. While he was in 1961 the university entrance exams, but his family could not afford the tuition fees. However, he managed to be enrolled in 1963 in the DM College of Imphal. In order to finance his living, he worked all his studies and into a quarry.
Liberation struggle
Since the riots in 1966, when the Indian central government began up to 60,000 Mizo in fortified villages, often with only 24 -hour warning, forcibly resettle, he was responsible for the MNF underground active. For the next three years he was a commander in the field Run Bung. When the MNF cadres went to East Pakistan in 1969, he was taken by party president Pu Laldenga to his secretary. He remained in this position seven years in exile in Pakistan 1972-76, Islamabad.
He and Pu Tawnluia that should be interior minister of Mizoram later, accompanied the party leader to the negotiations at various locations around the world. They returned with him then in January 1976 to Delhi back. When they were established there in 1979, he fled with Tawnluia in the jungle camp of the organization according to Arakan, where he acted as deputy party chairman.
Politician
After the signing of the peace agreement and the creation of the state of Mizoram, he was confidant of the prime minister Laldenga. He headed the Finance and Ministry of Education. After the death Laldengas in the summer of 1990, he took over the party chairmanship.
After the victory of the MNF in the 1998 elections, he became the fifth Chief Minister Mizorams, until the election defeat in 2008. Early 2007 he had arranged that Charlton Lien Amo, took up with one of the few remaining armed groups, the Hmar Peoples Convention ( Democracy ) negotiations. In the end of his term of office the democratically afforded complete separation of executive and judiciary falls.
Family
Zoramthanga is married to Roneihsangi since 1988. They have a son and a daughter Ramthansiama Milari. He is a practicing Presbyterian Christian.