Aizawl: Around 100 students and student body leaders gathered at the premises of the Assembly Secretariat on Friday shouting in unison, “Duhsaktu nei ve lo te tan – kan ding ve dawn,” which roughly translates to “We will stand for those who do not have anyone to show partiality to them.”
The protest, organised by Mizoram’s two apex student bodies, Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) and Mizo Students Union (MSU), aimed to highlight the alleged unfairness in a recruitment drive of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly House.
According to data accessed by the student union, 9 out of 11 recruits had direct links to officials at the Mizoram Legislative Assembly House, with one being a daughter of the Assembly House Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo. The advertisements for these job posts were put up only in two newspapers, Mizo Aw and Dingdi subscribed by a small population while larger newspaper publications were ignored. The student bodies suspect this gave way for the house officials to limit the number of applicants so they could filter out their favourites.
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