A tough taskmaster with a warm core, Lalduhoma will have to keep the ZPM united as well as the BJP at the Centre happy
Lalduhoma at a public meeting
ISSUE DATE: Dec 25, 2023 | UPDATED: Dec 15, 2023 18:18 IST
The first thing Lalduhoma did after taking oath as the Mizoram chief minister on December 8 was visit a drug rehabilitation centre. Checking drug abuse in the state was one of the top poll promises of his six-party alliance, the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM). From January to November this year, 68 people died of drug abuse in Mizoram, which has a population of just over a million. The state remains a major smuggling route for narcotic substances from Myanmar. The visit wasn’t surprising given how the 1976-batch IPS officer first rose to prominence for busting drug networks in Goa. Over four decades later, at the age of 74, he is Mizoram’s oldest debutant CM today.