Mizoram minister resigns

Mizoram minister resigns
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Aizawl, April 20: Mizoram Home Minister Tawnluia today submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Zoramthanga owning moral responsibility for the recent spurt in abductions by insurgents in the state. However, the resignation was not accepted by the Chief Minister.

Tawnluia said that he had submitted his resignation last night in the wake of the three incidents of abduction in which nine people were taken away by two militant groups from across the state borders.

``However the Chief Minister asked me this morning that he had not accepted my resignation and asked me to continue as before," he said here today.