AIZAWL, August 29 NNN: Invoking the Gandhian way of \u2018Long March\u2019 popularly called \u2018Dandi March\u2019 where Gandhiji with his 78 followers marched to Dandi to break the \u2018Salt law\u2019 during Indian Freedom struggle, Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) here in Mizoram organized a \u2018Long March\u2019 to \u2018save\u2019 Mizoram.
\nThe purpose this time is not to break the British salt law, instead it is a reason to save Mizoram from its bondage, to heal the wounds that cripple the state, to free the state from curruption that consumed public money, to bring about change in the govt administration for the welfare and development et al.
\nThe Long March under the banner \u201cSave Mizoram\u201d has marched 94 km after the marchers reached Thenzawl on the 4th day today.
\nEarlier on August 26, 2013, ZNP chief Lalduhawma had flagged off the Long March at Vanapa Hall, Aizawl and said the purpose of this march is to save Mizoram. The Long March is expected to last for 9 days encompassing around 175 km when they reach Lunglei.
\nToday, the ZNP team was received with a warm welcome. Various leaders including ZNP supremo Lalduhawma have spoken whereever they halt.
\nAddressing the people, ZNP Vice President K. Liantlinga said Mizoram has several illnesses, and \u2018we are encircled by a number of miseries\u2019. \u201cThus, Mizoram needs to be saved. It has to be saved from poverty, corruption, malpractices and injustice. People have to be delivered from these bondages and our land should be saved from recession\u201d, he said. Let the kingdom of God come in Mizoram politic for her deliverance\u201d, he added.
\nThe Chief Minister according to K. Liantlinga is constantly talking about Mizoram as a served state and that the people are sluggish. \u201cBut he is wrong, we are not a sluggard, instead we are not getting equivalent shares and profits\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n