AIZAWL: Congress on Thursday dropped
Mizoram assembly speaker
Hiphei
from its list of candidates for the assembly election.
The move follows Hiphei's sudden visit to Guwahati on Tuesday for a reported meeting with BJP leader and Assam minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The All India Congress Committee on Thursday evening replaced him with former legislator and party general secretary KT Rokhaw for the Palak seat.
The source said soon after the first list was released on October 24, people of Palak constituency, under the Mara Autonomous District Council, started objecting to Hiphei's candidature. While the resentment grew stronger, Congress did not want to take any chance.
Retired bureaucrat K Riachho's name was doing the round as Hiphei's replacement in Palak.
The party also changed its candidate for Chakma-majority Tuichawng seat. The new candidate for the seat is Kali Kumar Tongchangya.
Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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