Opinion: Row Over Mizoram CM’s Viral ‘Zo Unity’ Speech Is Exaggerated. British-Era Blow To Ethnic Ties Still Stings

Mizoram CM Lalduhoma is a former IPS officer, and is known as a moderate leader in the northeastern state.

Source : PTI

A two-month old speech of Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma has now gone viral and created a controversy. In the speech, delivered on September 4 in Indiana, US, Lalduhoma talked about the unity of Zo tribes, which he said were living under the governments of three countries (India, Bangladesh and Myanmar). The controversy centres on his statement that this division of Zo tribes wasn’t acceptable.  “…We will rise together under one leadership to achieve our destiny of