Key Candidates

Zoramthanga is the current chief minister of Mizoram as well as the chief of the Mizo National Front (MNF). He has been representing the Aizawl East-I assembly constituency in the Mizoram Assembly since 2018. Zoramthanga was also the Mizoram CM twice in the past from 1998 to 2008. He became an active member of the MNF during the time of the uprising and also joined the guerrilla movement. He was appointed as cabinet minister in the Laldenga ministry after the signing of the Mizoram Peace Accord.

Tawnluia was the former commander-in-chief of the disbanded Mizo National Army (MNA) for over 20 years. He joined the Mizo National Front in 1963 and has been elected to the Mizoram Legislative Assembly on an MNF ticket in the years 1987, 1989, 1998 and 2003. He again won the Tuichang assembly seat in the year 2018. He is the current deputy chief minister of Mizoram and the senior vice-president of the Mizo National Front party. He has also been the home minister in the previous MNF cabinet in 1998 and 2003.

Lalsawta is a Congress leader and the current president of the party's Mizoram state unit. He is contesting the upcoming election from the Aizawl West-III constituency against Mizo National Front's Er K Lalsawmvela and VL Zaithanzama of Zoram People's Movement. Lalsawta was Mizoram's finance minister from 2008 to 2018 in the government led by chief minister Lal Thanhawla. He represented the Aizawl East-II constituency in 2008 and 2013 before losing it in 2018. He became the president of the Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee after the retirement of former CM and Congress veteran Lal Thanhawla.

Vanlalhmuaka is BJP’s Mizoram state president and is contesting the upcoming polls from Dampa constituency against Mizo National Front's Lalrintluanga Sailo, Lalhmingthanga Sailo of Congress and Zoram People's Movement’s Vanlalsailova. In the 2018 Mizoram assembly election, he contested from the Serlui constituency and finished fourth with 12.20 per cent votes behind MNF, Congress and independent candidates. Vanlalhmuaka was the general secretary of the state BJP when he was unanimously declared elected as the party's state unit president in 2020.

Lalduhoma is the leader of the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) and a former IPS officer from Mizoram. In the 2018 Mizoram Assembly Election, he won from two constituencies including Aizawl West-I and Serchhip by defeating MNF and Congress candidates. However, he chose to represent the Serchhip constituency and became the Leader of the Opposition. Lalduhoma was also the founder of the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) and contested the 2013 Mizoram Assembly Election as its representative from the Kolasib constituency but lost. He was disqualified as an MLA on charges of breaching the anti-defection law. However, he was re-elected from the Serchhip seat in a bypoll. He was also the Mizoram Lok Sabha member from the Congress in 1984.