Lai People's Party was a political party in the Indian state of Mizoram. LPP was active in the Chhimutuipui West district.rediff. Tribal parties likely to hold the balance of powerBusiness Standard. Congress Chances Slim In MizoramMahendra Singh Rana. India Votes: Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha Elections 1999, 2000 : Poll Analysis, Election Data, and Party Manifestos. B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2000. p. 279 The party was founded in 1996.Doungel Jangkhongam, Z. Hengmang, Founder of The Pawi-Lakher Regional Council (PLRC) and Father of The Lais of Mizoram (September 2017). Historical Journal Mizoram, 2017 It was based among the Lai (Pawi) people, and demanded a separate Lairam Union Territory.Col Ved Prakash. Encyclopaedia of North-East India, Vol. 4. Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2007. p. 1830 As of 1996 the party president was F. Manghnuna and L. Chinzah the party vice president. Z. Hengmang, who had been the first chairman of the Pawi-Lakher Regional Council in 1953, took part in the founding of LPP and remained its senior advisor until his death in 2004.
In 1996 a LPP delegation met with Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, presenting a memorandum asking for a separate Union Territory.
LPP held one (of 27) seat in the Lai Autonomous District Council.
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