How Congress lost the plot in Mizoram

December 11 brought along with it nail-biting finishes and cliffhangers as the votes for the 5 states' Assembly polls were counted. But the earliest state to give a decisive mandate was Mizoram. 
Assembly polls 2018 had whipped up quite a storm as soon as they were announced in the first week of October because at stake was Mizoram, the Congress' last bastion in the northeast.
Veteran Congress leader Lal Thanhawla who had been the chief minister for 5 non-consecutive terms, battled anti-incumbency. What no one had provided for was the abysmally low count of seats that the party ended up winning - the Congress won just 5 seats in the state’s  40-member Assembly. 
With the counting done, political experts and observers are now trying to decipher the prime reasons behind the dethroning of Congress government from its last bastion in the northeast.

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