{"id":307053,"date":"2018-12-15T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307053"},"modified":"2018-12-15T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:05:17","slug":"zoramthanga-sworn-in-as-mizorams-new-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/zoramthanga-sworn-in-as-mizorams-new-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoramthanga sworn in as Mizoram&#8217;s new chief minister"},"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-307058 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01-569x420.jpg 569w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181215-193231__01.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mizo National Front (MNF) President Zoramthanga was sworn in as Mizoram&#8217;s new chief minister on December 15, heading a 12-member ministry. Along with Zoramthanga, five cabinet ministers and six ministers of state &#8211; were also sworn in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Zoramthanga was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor K Rajasekharan during a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Aizawl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Zoramthanga took oath in the Mizo language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tawnluia will be the deputy chief minister of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The sources revealed that the Governor also dissolved the seventh state legislative Assembly to pave the way for the constitution of the eighth Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MNF won 26 seats in the 40-member Assembly in the recently held polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rev R Lalhmingthanga, Chairman of Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee, read out from the Bible and offered prayers during the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizo National Front (MNF) President Zoramthanga was sworn in as Mizoram&#8217;s new chief minister on December 15, heading a 12-member ministry. Along with Zoramthanga, five cabinet ministers and six ministers of state &#8211; were also sworn in. Zoramthanga was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor K Rajasekharan during a ceremony at Raj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":307058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2929,2030,2014],"tags":[10296,2315,10295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307053"}],"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=307053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307059,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307053\/revisions\/307059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}