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A conglomerate of major civil society and students’ organisations in Mizoram has said that the Bru families who declined the rehabilitation package within the deadline of September 30 should not be allowed to return from refugee camps in Tripura. Only 45 of the 5,407 Bru families comprising 32,867 individuals returned home to Mizoram after the Ministry of Home Affairs signed a quadripartite agreement on July 3 with the governments of the two States involved and the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum representing the refugees.
“A meeting of constituent NGOs on Tuesday resolved that the stubborn Bru families should not return to Mizoram after the expiry of the deadline. We July 3,” Vanlalruata, chairman of the NGO Coordination Committee, said. The committee reminded Lal Thanhawla’s Congress government of its promise to delete Bru voters living in Tripura camps from the electoral rolls of Mizoram. The Mizoram government had in August said Bru families not keen on returning would be struck off the voters’ list of the State. The committee has also appealed to all political parties not to field candidates from the Chakma community in the forthcoming Assembly elections. The majority Mizo community considers the Chakmas as well as the Brus non-indigenous and feels they do not have any political right to contest elections in the State.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/dont-allow-brus-returning-after-deadline/article25140169.ece
