In Mizoram, it is a battle over local beneficiary schemes of the past, present, and future
The HinduAIZAWLAssembly elections in Mizoram have been the blandest in India since 2008 when the church-backed Mizoram People’s Forum came up with the “model code of conduct” to prevent violence and inducements experienced during the 2003 State election. The third phase was suspended temporarily as its initiation coincided with the announcement of the polls,” MNF veteran and Mizoram’s Deputy Chief Minister Tawnluia said. New Land Use Policy The SEDP, he said, was an “inflated version” of the New Land Use Policy, which was launched in January 2011 by the Congress government headed by Lal Thanhawla to offer financial assistance of ₹1 lakh each to 1,20,000 families identified by the agriculture and allied departments. “Our scheme entails the LOTUS family identity card to be issued to all eligible families aimed at improving their quality of life and livelihoods,” Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju, in charge of the BJP’s election campaign in Mizoram, said. Rivals MNF, the regional Zoram People’s Movement, and Congress have cautioned voters to be wary of the BJP scheme “designed to ingrain the party symbol in the people’s minds”.