Mizoram’s richest candidate campaigns on foot

He is the richest candidate in Mizoram’s Assembly elections with declared assets of Rs 55 crore, owns a popular football club and has a fleet of luxury cars, but Mizo National Front (MNF) leader Robert Romawia Royte says he wants to keep his electioneering modest with door-to-door campaign on foot.
Royte, the main opposition party’s candidate from Aizawl East-II constituency, is a first-timer in Assembly polls and is fighting from a seat where the ruling Congress has fielded veteran leader and incumbent finance minister Lalsawta.
The MNF leader had unsuccessfully fought the Lok Sabha polls in 2014 as an independent candidate. The 51-year old millionaire businessman, who owns Aizawl FC that bagged the I-League title in 2017, says he is following an “eco-friendly” campaign without any hullabaloo or sloganeering.

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