Mizoram: CADC CEM Durjya Dhan Chakma resigns

AIZAWL: Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC) Chief Executive Member (CEM) Durjya Dhan Chakma of Mizo National Front (MNF) has resigned from his post, the second CEM to have resigned in six months.

The resignation come in the wake of a petition to the council chairman last week seeking Chakma''s removal on grounds of misuse of power and defamation of the Council.

Durjya Dhan Chakma said that he voluntarily resigned from the CEM post for the welfare of the council and the MNF party.

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A separate FIR was also registered against Durjya Dhan Chakma for allegedly sexually molesting a woman on September 30.

Durjya Dhan Chakma had successfully contested the council poll held in April 2018 on an MNF ticket from Kamalanagar North constituency.

With the resignation of Durjya Dhan Chakma, the Executive Committee stands dissolved and the monsoon session was held without transaction of any business in the absence of an Executive Committee.

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