{"id":305131,"date":"2018-11-05T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305131"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T11:14:49","slug":"mizoram-assembly-congress-speaker-resigns-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mizoram-assembly-congress-speaker-resigns-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram Assembly congress speaker resigns, joins BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305133 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-696x563.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-1068x864.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01-519x420.jpg 519w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181105-164332__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hiphei, Mizoram Legislative Assembly speaker and senior Congress leader, on November 5 resigned from his post as well as the House and the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hiphei submitted his letter of resignation to Deputy Speaker R Lalrinawma, who accepted it. But the leader did not mention his reasons for quitting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAfter I tender my resignation from the Congress party, I will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),\u201d the leader said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Guwahati, Himanta Biswa Sarma, convenor of the North East Democratic Alliance and BJP leader, had announced Hiphei joining the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sarma said, &#8220;He is a very senior leader. His joining the BJP will greatly strengthen the organization.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hiphei is the fifth Congress MLA to resign from the 40-member House since September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was elected MLA from Palak constituency in the 2013 Mizoram State Assembly election. He also served as Rajya Sabha MP for two terms (1990 \u2013 1996, 1996 to 2002).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Having served two consecutive terms, Hiphei was expected to contest the polls from Palak constituency, but the political difference in the Mara Autonomous District Council areas prompted Mizoram Congress to field another candidate named KT Rokhaw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state will go to the polls on November 28.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiphei, Mizoram Legislative Assembly speaker and senior Congress leader, on November 5 resigned from his post as well as the House and the Congress. Hiphei submitted his letter of resignation to Deputy Speaker R Lalrinawma, who accepted it. But the leader did not mention his reasons for quitting. \u201cAfter I tender my resignation from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":305133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2929,2030,1801,2014],"tags":[453,236,9513,2315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305134,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305131\/revisions\/305134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}