AIZAWL, Oct 4: The NGO Coordination
Committee, a conglomerate of major
civil society organisations and student
bodies of Mizoram, today warned
that Bru families, who were “stubbornly
reluctant” to return from Tripura during
the repatriation exercise, should not
come back to Mizoram after the end of
the deadline.
The repatriation of over 32,800 Bru
people belonging to 5,407 families lodged
at six relief camps in Tripura, which began
from August, expired on September 30. During the two-month-long repatriation
process, only 30 families returned
to Mizoram.
Vanlalruata, chairman of the NGO Coordination
Committee, said that a meeting
of major civil society organisations
took a resolution that “stubborn” Bru families
should not return to Mizoram after
the deadline. They also asked the Centre
and the governments of Mizoram and
Tripura to act according to the “quadripartite
agreement” reached on July 3. The
committee appealed to the Mizoram
Government to honour its promise and
take immediate action in deleting the
names of Bru voters living in Tripura from
the Mizoram electoral rolls.
Earlier, the State Government had
stated that the names of all Bru voters,
who are reluctant to return to Mizoram,
would be deleted from the State’s
electoral roll.
Taking strong exception to the reluctance
of the Bru people towards returning
from Tripura, the NGO Coordination
Committee appealed to all the political
parties in the State not to conduct
election campaigns at the relief camps in
Tripura in view of the forthcoming Assembly
polls. NEWMAI NEWS
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