The 26th Death Anniversary of Mizo Leader Laldenga was celebrated today with leaders of Mizo National Front, and others laying wreaths at his burial place in Aizawl this morning. Former state home minister and ‘Army Chief’ of the erstwhile underground Mizo National Army (MNA) Tawnluia and Laldenga’s widow Lalbiakdiki were among those who laid wreaths at Laldenga’s tomb.
Born on July 11, 1927 at south Mizoram’s Pukpui village in Lunglei district, Laldenga joined the British Indian Army in 1944 and formed the Mizo National Famine Front while Mizoram was reeling under a great famine called ‘Mautam’ caused by gregarious bamboo flowering which resulted in population explosion of rodents in the late 1950s.
He converted the MNFF into a political party – the Mizo National Front (MNF) on October 22, 1961 with its main object to struggle for independence from the Indian Union.