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Multi-corner contest in offing in Dampa bypoll
The Statesman
|October 21, 2025
A multi-corner contest is on the cards in the 11 November by-election to the Dampa Assembly constituency in Mizoram.
Election officials said that so far, four candidates of the ruling and opposition parties have filed their candidacies forthe by-election. The candidates who filed their nomination papers were Vanlalsailova of the ruling Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM), opposition Mizo National Front’s (MNF) R Lalthangliana, BJP’s Lalhmangaiha and John Rotluangliana ofthe Congre
This story is from the October 21, 2025 edition of The Statesman.
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