What do the Mizoram election results tell us? Mizoram, a border state with absolute Christian majority is small but significant from civilization perspective These elections indicate an increasingly difficult future for India there.

This is how

Oldest Mizo party is Mizo National Front, (MNF) which was a militant Christian organization before Mizoram’s statehood in 1987, and which had declared independence in 1966. Apart from Congress it is the only regional party which has ruled Mizoram before these elections.

It was this MNF which was the ruling party until before 2023 elections and which lost Mizoram, for the very first time to another regional party Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM). What does this mean?

From the Hindu point of view MNF for sure is bad news for it is militant Christian, racist, anti-Hindu and anti-Indian. Mizoram is the epitome of choosing lesser evil from Hindu point of view and in that regard MNF was the lesser evil.

This is because while MNF was militant and wildly fanatically Christian and anti-Hindu, ZPM, the new party in power is far worse. While MNF had some focus on greater Christian consolidation outside, ZPM is ten steps ahead in Christian brotherhood.

MNF rotates around the Mizo identity as it is situated in the Indian state of Mizoram. This Mizo identity was created in the Indian state of Mizoram, which was earlier the Lushai Hills under British ruled India.

Contrary to what we believe, Mizos as a ‘tribe’ located in the ‘sacred hills of Mizoram’ consolidated completely only under the British rule. Before that the tribal identities were fluid and less binding.

But the British needed a watertight identity. So they fixed the Mizo identity on a people they considered ‘closest to the idea of Mizos’. But this was not enough, as problem would not be solved as long as the newly minted Mizos kept moving and migrating.

British needed a clear and stable border. For that they needed to stop constant migrations and movements of tribes. So they fixed the ‘range of Mizos’, which were the Lushai Hills or the current state of Indian Mizoram. Other ‘kins’ they declared as ‘sister tribes’ of Mizos.

They also needed a loyal border and for them nothing was greater than religious loyalty and thus they converted Mizos to Christianity. This is how India found Mizoram at its independence – Christian and loyal to Britain and not India.

Since MNF as a movement, organization and party was wedded to the idea of Mizoram as the British had created, its focus was more on Indian Mizoram than the ‘Mizos’ (Kuki/ Chin) outside the state.

They always looked for greater connection with their sister tribes across the border in Myanmar, but the place of Lushai Hills (Indian Mizoram) was central to their imagination. It is precisely this aspect of Mizoram politics which is going to change.

In recent decades there is another greater pan-Mizo Christian movement which roots in the word ‘Zoram’ and not Mizo, as many 100% Christian tribes within the state of Mizoram and outside Mizoram in Myanmar don’t identity as Mizo, but identify with the idea of ‘Zoram’.

Mizoram is created from three words – Mi, Zo & Ram. Mi means people, Zo mean hills and Ram means land – hence ‘Land of the Hill People’. But the word ‘Mizo’ has come to signify as a greater tribal political identity in the Indian state. And Mizo identity has many problems.

For example, the Mara tribe in Mizoram are considered Mizos by rest of Mizos in Indian state, but Maras themselves don’t consider them Mizos. This is because Mizo identity is based on Mizoram as a pure Mizo Christian state and also exclusive.

On the other hand they don’t consider Kuki tribes of Manipur as exactly Mizo while the Kukis of Manipur consider themselves Mizo. The same is the case with Chin tribes of Myanmar. Chin consider themselves Mizo, but not Mizos, who think of them as kins but not completely ‘in’.

All of these identity battles are settled in the name of ‘Zoram’, which has come to encompass all Mizo/Kuki/Chin tribes under single identity umbrella, thus overcoming the limitations of the word ‘Mizo’ in pan-Zoram or pan-Mizo Christian goals.

ZPM or Zoram People’s Movement will thus focus more on cross border co-operation of Christian Zo ‘brothers’, and work for a more ‘Free Border Regime’ making international borders between mainly India and Myanmar meaningless and bringing more headache to India.

ZPM’s victory will mean more seamless movement of Christian Kuki tribes across international border as well as greater co-operation between the Kuki Christian tribes of Manipur and the Mizo Christian tribes of Mizoram and the Kuki/Chin tribes of Myanmar.

The election map proves this. The Myanmar border across which more ‘sister’ Chin tribes live, ZPM has won with a landslide, with Champhai the ‘sacred heart of Mizo people’ completely giving thumbs up to the greater Zo party of ZPM.

Thus the coming times will have more of fifth column of India’s enemies Pakistan, China and US Churches which will make Mizoram their safe house and launch Christianization attacks on Hindus across North-east and rest of India.

The only good part is that BJP has won in two areas, both non-Mizo in some regards.

One is in the Chakma autonomous district. Chakmas are Buddhists and have their separate district inside Mizoram. Separate tribal district is a parallel configuration and it does not mean an actual district and so Mizos also live in these districts.

Here, BJP has registered a great rise in vote share and was leading in two seats before losing them closely to MNF.

Other area of victory for BJP is in the Mara autonomous district. Maras are 100% Christian and live entirely in Mizoram, and are considered Mizos by other Mizo tribes near Aizawl, but Maras themselves don’t consider themselves Mizos and want separate identity.

That is why they have voted for the BJP. So the BJP is consolidating anti-Mizo vote but having no clear dharmic telos in mind, they have chosen on one hand to be with dharmic Buddhist Chakma tribe, but on the other to be with monotheistic Christian Mara tribe.

In total, the Mizo political scene is now between intense Christian Zo identity on one hand and weak Mizo and anti-Mizo identity (garnered by the BJP on the other).

But more importantly, Mizoram increasingly is gravitating towards fanatical Christian safe heaven controlled directly by India’s territorial, religious and civilizational enemies.

(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread posted by @PankajSaxena84 on December 04, 2023, with minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)