Aizawl: Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma will present the state annual budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year and supplementary demands for grants for 2025-26 in the state assembly on February 26, Speaker Lalbiakzama said on Tuesday.
This marks the third budget presented by Lalduhoma since the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) swept to power on December 8, 2023.
The ZPM victory ended the decades-long dominance of the Congress and the Mizo National Front (MNF), which had alternately ruled the state for roughly 35 years since Mizoram attained statehood in 1987.
Lalbiakzama said that a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) on Tuesday finalised the detailed programme and duration for the upcoming budget session, which will begin on February 17 and conclude on March 16.
Lalduhoma, who also holds the finance portfolio, is scheduled to table the budget and supplementary grants during the February 26 sitting, he added.
Governor Vijay Kumar Singh will deliver the gubernatorial address on the session’s opening day, and the assembly will pay obituary to former legislator KL Rochama the following day, he said.
The month-long session will consist of 17 sittings, according to the Speaker.
An official said the Assembly Secretariat has received 946 starred questions for oral replies and 339 unstarred questions for written replies to be laid on the table of the house during question hour.
Additionally, the Secretariat received three amendment bills for presentation, including the Mizo Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance Property (Amendment) Bill and the Mizoram Local Bodies (Amendment) Bill, he added.
The upcoming session is the sixth of the 9th State Assembly since the Lalduhoma-led ZPM government assumed power.