Silchar, Dec. 10 :     The Mizoram People?s Conference (MPC), which snapped ties with the Mizo National Front (MNF)-led coalition government in the state yesterday, today asked its 12 legislators to sit in a separate block in the Assembly. Speaker R. Lalwaia was intimated of the decision, taken at an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the MPC held this afternoon at the party headquarters in Aizawl. The decision marked an abrupt end to the one-year-old MNF-MPC honeymoon, forged during the 1988 Assembly polls in the state. The alliance had paved the way for the emergence of a two-party coalition government. The coalition was terminated yesterday when chief minister and MNF president Zoramthanga asked all the five MPC ministers to resign following differences over elections to the village councils, slated for December 16. While the MNF alleged that the MPC had arrived at a seat adjustment with the Congress in 70 per cent of the village council constituencies, the MPC denied the charge saying the MNF was only witch-hunting. MPC leader Lalhmingthanga, who held the power portfolio in the coalition ministry, said he and his four colleagues ? health minister K. Lianchia, rural development minister J. Thangliana, social welfare minister Lalchhunga and tourism minister Lalthangliana ? had submitted their letters of resignations yesterday. The chief minister immediately forwarded these to Governor A. Padmanavan, who accepted the resignations. Zoramthanga said the government in Mizoram would not suffer any instability as the MNF had 21 legislators and enjoyed the support of the lone Independent member in the 40-member House. Lalhmingthanga told The Telegraph over telephone from Aizawl today that the MPC would continue to offer ?constructive opposition? to the MNF government. The Congress, which has six members in the Assembly, has been watching the recent political developments in the state with avid interest. However, a party leader at Aizawl today denied reports that the Congress would engineer a rift in the MNF legislature body for forming an alternative government with the support of the MPC and the MNF dissidents. Political observers at Aizawl, however, said such a move by the dissidents would not fructify as the MNF was a well-knit, monolithic body.