India, Dec. 15 -- Mizoram's ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) on Monday dumped the Congress and stitched an alliance with the Mizo National Front (MNF) to stake a claim to form the executive body in the 25-member Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) on December 18.

The move comes days after the Mizoram Congress ended its pre-poll alliance with the MNF and announced it would partner with the ZPM in LADC. At the time, the Congress had explained its decision to attempt to engineer the defection of several elected council members.

The LADC is one of the three Sixth Schedule autonomous district councils in Mizoram that function as a self-governing body for the Lai ethnic community, handling local governance, customary laws, land managem...