
Describing the decision as “unfortunate”, Kundra, talking to media persons,
appealed to the civil societies not to deprive the people their rights and duties of franchise and to ensure that the people of Mizoram has representation in
the Parliament.
The call for boycott was in retaliation
to the ECI’s rejection of the Mizo NGOs
demand to have the Bru voters in Tripura relief camps exercise their franchise
at their respective villages in Mizoram
where they were enrolled as voters.
Like it did in the last Assembly polls
in November last year, the EC has instructed the State Election department
to to establish 15 special polling stations
at Mizoram-Tripura border Kanhmun
village where 12,081 Bru voters in the
six relief camps in Tripura would exercise franchise.
“In the meeting of ECI, NGOCC and
the State Election department, held before the State Assembly polls last year,
it was decided that the Bru voters in the
relief camps would exercise franchise inside Mizoram, and it was done as such
by making arrangements at Kanhmun
village,” Kundra said
He said that as far as he knew there
was no agreement that the Bru voters in
Tripura relief camps would cast their
votes in their respective polling stations
where they were enrolled as voters.
On the repatriation of Brus, he said
that repatriation problems could not
be solved by elections, but through
dialogue by the government and the
Bru leaders.
Meanwhile, around 450 people have
exercised their franchise through postal
ballots where there were about 2,000
service voters for the coming Lok Sabha
polls and the EC could order the counting of such votes polled in the event of
poll boycott and declare results. - Assam Tribune
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