Peace not paying for Mizoram, says Chief Minister Lalduhoma

Mizoram Chief Minister urges Centre for peace bonus due to lack of security-related expenditures, highlighting challenges faced.

Peace is not paying for Mizoram, its Chief Minister Lalduhoma told the Centre on Sunday (March 16, 2025).

After attending a meeting of the Chief Ministers of the northeast with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Guwahati, he said Mizoram was denied security-related expenditures (SRE) unlike the other States as it was the country’s most peaceful.

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“So, being the most peaceful State in the country means you become a loser. So, peace doesn’t pay. Peace doesn’t have dividends,” he said, requesting the Home Ministry to give a peace bonus if it could not extend the SRE to Mizoram to convey to the country that peace pays.

The meeting of the Chief Ministers — Manipur, under the President’s Rule, was represented by Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla — focused on the implementation of three new criminal laws in the northeastern States. The laws are Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam.

Mr. Lalduhoma said the main problem Mizoram was facing regarding the implementation of these new criminal laws was that of the Internet connection.

“The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology must come up with a scheme so that our problem is over. This perennial issue can be solved immediately,” he said.