Disqualified as MP in 1988, Mizoram MLA in 2020 for defection

Aizawl, Nov 27 In an ironic turn of events, an IPS officer-turned-politician from Mizoram who was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha for defection in 1988, lost his membership of the state Assembly on Friday for the same reason.

A senior Mizoram Assembly official said that Speaker Lalrinliana in his order, on Friday, said Lalduhoma has been disqualified for "losing the character of an independent legislator".

"Lalrinliana, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Speaker under para 6 of the 10th Schedule to the Constitution of India, took the decision after a petition submitted by 12 MLAs against Lalduhoma," the official, who did not want to be identified, told .

"The Speaker, before taking the disqualification decision, had studied such precedents of Parliament and other state legislatures. In his decision, the Speaker noted that Lalduhoma, who was elected an Independent, was not a candidate fielded by any political party but he admitted that he joined the Zoram People's Movement

( With inputs from IANS )