Summary:
Guwahati: Mizoram , where pro-China slogans have been raised in recent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, on Tuesday saw former chief minister Lal Thanhawla holding a banner seeking an independent Mizoram.“Hello, Independent Republic of Mizoram,” the banner says. Asked why the Congress veteran was holding the banner, spokesperson of Congress’s Mizoram unit Lallian Chhunga said, “He was not carrying any banner and had only joined the protest. It is a matter of life and death.”Referring to the pro-China slogans raised in recent times (banners said “The word China has been used as a symbol to tell Indian political leadership that if you do like this, we will show our disloyalty. It is a symbolic gesture to show our disloyalty.” He just happened to keep his hand on a banner carried by a protester.”However, not completely dismissing the message it sent out, Chhunga added, “The message is our way of telling the government of India that if you forcibly pass the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, there is no reason we should continue to show our loyalty to sovereign India..