Vanlalzawma a politician from Mizoram who was a Member of the

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in the

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and

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. Before he became a politician, he was the president of Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA) in 1993 at the age of 37 and served two terms. During this period CYMA had wildlife conservation as its yearly goal ("nungcha humhalh kum" in Mizo) and Vanlalzawma received an award for CYMA from the President of India, for successful wildlife conservation in Mizoram. At the age of 43, he was elected to be the MP of Mizoram in 1999 (He was a history lecturer prior to this and he has deep interest in education). Immediately after he became the MP in 2000, he successfully pursued the overdue Mizoram University Bill in the Parliament. Which as a result,

Mizoram University Mizoram University is a central university established on 2 July 2000, by the Mizoram University Act (2000) of the Parliament of India. The President of India is the official Visitor, and the Governor of Mizoram acts as the Chief Rector as per M ...

(MZU) was established on 2 July 2001, by the Mizoram University Act (2000) of the Parliament of India. He is a good mathematician and besides his career he loves playing Chess. He was the highest rated chess player in Mizoram for several years. He is also very good at running and has won several medals at Mizoram games in 100 meters sprint. In the confidence voting on 22 July 2008 that the

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(UPA) won with a 275-256 margin. Among these ten, two MPs toed their party line of equidistance from the

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(BJP). Those two are: *

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: Vanlalzawma

Education

He was educated in

Pachhunga University College Pachhunga University College (PUC) is a Public university, public institute in Aizawl, Mizoram, and the only constituent college of Mizoram University, a Central University (India), central university established by an Act of Parliament of Parl ...

and North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU)and has completed his Education in MA History.

Career

He served as lecturer in

Hrangbana College Hrangbana College is located at Chanmari, Aizawl, Mizoram. Hrangbana College admits the most students in Mizoram: 850. History The college is named after Hrangbana, a late philanthropist and prominent businessman who generously donated a sum ...

and was elected as President of

Young Mizo Association The Young Mizo Association (YMA) is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit, secular, nongovernmental organisation of the Mizo people. It was established on 15 June 1935, originally as the Young Lushai Association (YLA), which was later r ...

(YMA), the largest NGO in Mizoram.

Politics

He is a member of the

and has represented the

Mizoram Mizoram is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its Capital city, capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar t ...

constituency in the

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since 1999. He was a member of the following committees. *Member of Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas *Member of Consultative Committee, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports. *Member of Committee on Human Resource Development. *Member of Committee on Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

References

Lok Sabha Member's homepage.
{{Mizoram Lok Sabha constituency 1956 births Living people Wildlife conservation Mizo people India MPs 2004–2009 People from Lunglei India MPs 1999–2004 North-Eastern Hill University alumni Lok Sabha members from Mizoram Mizoram MLAs 2013–2018 Leaders of the opposition in Mizoram