Overview
Lalduhoma (also spelled Lalduhawma; born 22 February 1949) is an Indian politician serving as the Chief Minister of Mizoram. Before entering politics, he was an officer of the Indian Police Service and was assigned to the security detail of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a position from which he resigned to take up public life.
In 1984, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Mizoram and was appointed President of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee, a state unit of the Indian National Congress. Two years later, he left the party on whose ticket he had been elected, and was consequently disqualified from Parliament. He is recognised as the first Member of Parliament in India to be unseated under the country's anti-defection law.
Lalduhoma later founded the Zoram Nationalist Party, a regional political party in Mizoram, and serves as its president. The party joined the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) coalition, and he was selected as the coalition's first Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2018 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election. He won from both the Aizawl West I and Serchhip constituencies, and chose to represent Serchhip from 2018.
While functioning as Leader of the Opposition in the state legislature, he was disqualified as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 2020 on a charge of breaching the anti-defection law, the first such instance in India's state legislatures. He was re-elected from the Serchhip constituency in a by-election in 2021. In the 2023 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, the ZPM secured a landslide victory, defeating the incumbent Mizo National Front, following which Lalduhoma assumed office as Chief Minister of Mizoram.
References
Adapted from the English Wikipedia article on Lalduhoma.