GUWAHATI, August 19: Former Mizoram Chief Minister and Mizo National Front (MNF) president Zoramthanga is set to receive his undergraduate degree certificate from Gauhati University on August 20, six decades after completing his final examination.
Zoramthanga appeared for the examination in 1966 from Dhanamanjuri College in Manipur, then affiliated with Gauhati University, with English as his major subject. He passed with a second-class result but could not collect his certificate after going underground as an MNF member.
The 82-year-old will receive the certificate from the university Vice-Chancellor at a ceremony at the Phanidhar Dutta Seminar Hall at 2.30 pm.
Zoramthanga joined the MNF in 1965 and went underground the following year. He remained closely associated with MNF founder Laldenga until the signing of the Mizoram Peace Accord in 1986, playing a role in the organisation’s political, military and diplomatic activities.
After the peace accord and Mizoram’s attainment of full statehood in 1987, he served as Education and Finance Minister in an MNF-Congress coalition government. He became MNF president after Laldenga’s death in 1990 and continues to hold the post. He served as Chief Minister from 1998 to 2008 and again from 2018 to 2023.
The occasion will also feature a special lecture by Zoramthanga titled “From Guerrilla Fighter to a Peace Maker”, organised jointly by the Amia Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Gauhati University Institute of North East India Studies and the Centre for South East Asian Studies.
Zoramthanga is also the author of From Guerrilla Fighter to Chief Minister, an autobiography published in 2026.
