Former Mizoram Assembly speaker Rokamlova dies at 79

    Aizawl, Jul 2 (PTI) Former Mizoram Assembly speaker
Upa Rokamlova died at a hospital here due to prolonged
illness. He was 79.
    He is survived by his wife and two children.
    Rokamlova died at the Ebenezer medical centre in
Aizawl on Wednesday evening, his family sources said.
    The veteran Congress leader was admitted to the
hospital on May 12 as he was suffering from kidney disorder,
they said.
    He joined politics in the early 1980s after he left
the teaching profession and was instrumental to the signing of
the historic Mizo Peace Accord in 1986.
    He won the state assembly elections three times
between 1984 and 1993.
    Rokamlova became the speaker of the Mizoram Assembly
in 1990.
    He also severed as rural development and transport
minister in Lal Thanhawla's government. He left politics in
1994.
    He was ordained as church elder of Dawrpui church in
1970 and had held various posts under Mizoram synod. PTI COR
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