TR Zeliang

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TR Zeliang, 2017

TR Zeliang (born February 21, 1952 in Mbaupungwa, Peren District , Nagaland , India ) is an Indian politician. From May 24, 2014 to February 20, 2017, he was Chief Minister of the Indian state of Nagaland . He held this post again from July 19, 2017 to March 8, 2018.

biography

TR Zeliang was born as the son of Rangleu Zeliang in a small village in Nagaland, which at that time still belonged administratively to the Indian state of Assam . The family belongs to the Naga people and, like the majority of Nagaland's residents, to the Christian religious community . He attended Don Bosco High School in Dibrugarh in Assam and was already politically active during his student days. First he joined the Congress Party and became President of the Youth Organization of the Congress Party in the Peren District. He later moved to the Naga National Democratic Party (NNDP).

In the parliamentary elections in Nagaland in 1982 and 1987 he ran in constituency 6-Tenning and was defeated by the candidate of the Congress Party with 19.8% and 26.2% of the vote. In the 1989 election he was able to win the constituency - now as a candidate of the Nagaland People's Conference (NPC) - for the first time and maintain it in the subsequent elections in Nagaland in 1993, 1998 and 2003 (from 1993 as a candidate of the Congress Party). From 1989 to 1990 he was Minister of State ( Minister of State ) for information and tourism, 1994 to 1998 for welfare and rehabilitation, and 1998 to 2003 for environmental protection and forestry in the Nagaland government. On June 27, 2003, Zeliang and 6 other members of the Congress Party split from the parliament in Nagaland and joined the Nagaland People's Front , which was founded the previous year . Between 2004 and 2008 Zeliang was a member of the Rajya Sabha , the “house of states” of the Indian bicameral parliament, for Nagaland . In the local parliamentary elections in 2008 and 2013, Zeliang won in the constituency 7-Peren for the Nagaland and Naga People's Front (NPF). In the latter election, the NPF received 38 out of 59 seats and then placed the Nagaland government under Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio . In the 2014 all- India election , Neiphiu Rio on die Lok Sabha was elected and accepted the mandate. On May 25, 2014, Zeliang was elected as his successor in the vacant post of Chief Minister.

Controversy over a glossy resume

At the end of 2015, a controversy arose over a detail in Zeliang's résumé. In his résumé submitted to the electoral authorities prior to the 2013 election, he had stated that he had obtained a BA from Kohima College in 1980 , something that political opponents doubted. In a subsequent court case in which the old documents were viewed, it was found that Zeliang had failed the final exams in 1979 in all subjects and had not started again the following year. However, the legal proceedings were discontinued on July 30, 2016 due to formal errors, because an objection to the CV should have been made no later than 1 year after its submission.

Dispute over the quota for women in Nagaland

In 1992, the 74th amendment to the constitution was introduced into the Indian constitution , which provided for a 33% quota for women in local elections. In Nagaland, however, this regulation did not initially apply. In 2005, the competent Gauhati High Court ordered the Nagaland government to implement the constitution. The Nagaland government changed the rules for holding local elections accordingly. However, this met with massive opposition from Naga tribal organizations, who argued that this violated the special rights and cultural autonomy of Nagaland guaranteed in Article 371A. The participation of women in politics would not correspond to the traditional Naga culture. The local elections scheduled for 2009 could not take place. The disputes continued and in April 2016 the Supreme Court of India ruled that the 74th Amendment took precedence over Article 371A and that the quota for women should also be implemented in Nagaland.

After sustained public protests and unrest over the women's quota, and after he began to lose support in parliament, Zeliang resigned from the office of chief minister on February 22, 2017. Shurhozelie Liezietsu was elected as his successor .

Second term as Chief Minister

In July 2017, Zeliang led an internal party revolt against his successor. Liezietsu was asked to face a vote of confidence in Nagaland's parliament. When he did not comply with the request, the governor of Nagaland reappointed Zeliang as chief minister on July 19, 2017, with the condition that a vote of confidence in parliament was held within three days in order to demonstrate his parliamentary support. The NPF party leadership viewed Zeliang's behavior as damaging to the party, excluded him from the party on July 19, 2017, called on the NPF MPs to vote against him and threatened dissenters with expulsion from the party. However, this did not have a sufficient effect and in the confidence vote on July 20, 2017, Zeliang received a majority of the MP's votes. The majority of the 59 NPF MPs also voted for him.

In December 2017, the divided NPF reached a compromise: Zeliang and his supporters remained in the NPF and the former continued to hold the post of chief minister, while Liezietsu became party chairman of the NPF. The parliamentary election in Nagaland on February 27, 2018, however, was narrowly lost for the NPF, so that Zeliang was replaced by Neiphiu Rio as the new Chief Minister of Nagaland on March 8, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TR Zeliang is new Nagaland chief minister after former CM Shurhozelie Liezietsu skips floor test. firstpost.com, July 19, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ CM's brother passes away. nelive.in, August 25, 2016, accessed on August 25, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b About the Chief Minister. Nagaland Government, accessed August 25, 2016 .
  4. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on August 24, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  5. ↑ a b TR Zeliang takes over as 16th chief minister of Nagaland. The Times of India, May 25, 2014, accessed August 24, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Prasanta Mazumdar: Nagaland Chief Minister Caught in Fake Degree Row. The Sunday Standard, November 29, 2015, accessed August 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Two legends one charge. Assam Times, July 8, 2016, accessed August 28, 2016 .
  8. ^ H. Chishi: Case against Zeliang dismissed. The Telegraph (Calcutta), July 30, 2016, accessed August 25, 2016 .
  9. ↑ THE CONSTITUTION (SEVENTY-FOURTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1992. indiacode.nic.in, 1992, accessed on August 25, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ In Nagaland, it's a long march for women's quota in local governments. Hindustan Times, February 15, 2017, accessed August 25, 2016 .
  11. ↑ SC favors JACWR on implementation of reservation. The Morung Express, April 16, 2016, accessed August 25, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang resigns amidst political turmoil ( The Times of India , February 19, 2017, English, accessed February 24, 2017)
  13. ↑ Kangkan Acharyya: TR Zeliang Proves majority in House: Party-less Nagaland CM Achieves new feat in Indian politics. July 20, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Two warring factions of ruling Nagaland People's Front agree to unite. scroll.in, December 17, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2018 (English).
  15. ^ Neiphiu Rio appointed chief minister of Nagaland, asked to prove majority. The Indian Wire, March 8, 2018, accessed March 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zeliang, TR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Mbaupungwa, Peren District , Nagaland , India