Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga, whose party Mizo National Front is part of the BJP-led NDA, is unhappy with how the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) overruled his choice of a chief secretary by appointing a non-local IAS officer as the chief secretary. The chief minister also wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah in this regard.
In the letter, Zoramthanga informed Shah about how an IAS officer who is not conversant with the local language could create a problem in administration.
“The Mizo people by and large generally do not understand Hindi, and none of my cabinet ministers understand Hindi, some of them even have problems with English language. With such a background, a chief secretary without knowledge of a working standard Mizo language will never be an effective and efficient chief secretary,” Zoramthanga said in the letter.
