5 facts to know about Vanlalawmpuii Chawngthu, Mizoram’s only woman MLA
TNT Desk | October, 07, 2018
As Mizoram gears up for elections in the next 2 months, qualms and speculations about the number of women representatives in the upcoming Assembly Elections have again become the talk of the town. In this scenario, it would only do justice to know more about Vanlalawmpuii Chawngthu, the only womam MLA in Mizoram.
**Vanlalawmpuii Chawngthu is a minister of state in the Congress government, holding the portfolios of sericulture, fisheries and cooperative. The state has a 40-member assembly.
** She is fondly known as OP-i among her friend circle.
** She is the fourth elected woman legislator in the state ever — the first being Thanmawii, elected way back in 1978. Another woman politician, Lalhlimpuii Hmar, who was elected on a Mizo National Front (MNF) ticket in 1987, was the first woman minister in the state.
**Twentyseven years later — in the 2014 by-poll — Vanlalawmpuii broke the jinx of women losing election after election in the state.
**Three years later, she was inducted into Chief Minister Lalthanhawla's ministry, becoming the second woman minister in the state in its history.
