Last Updated on July 19, 2023 11: 44pm
Aizawl: The deletion of Bru voters is on the verge of completion and names of over 6,000 Bru voters from Mizoram’s voter list, officials said.
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The Bru voters have been deleted from the state voter list due to their settlement in Tripura following the agreement in 2020, they said.
Officials said that the names of more than 6,000 Bru voters from nine assembly constituencies in three districts- Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei have been deleted during the process.
They said that more than 4,900 Bru voters’ names were deleted from the electoral rolls from three assembly constituencies- Mamit, Dampa and Hachhek.
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Assam border Kolasib district officials said that 948 names of Bru voters, who have settled permanently in Tripura have been deleted from the electoral rolls in Kolasib, Serlui and Tuirial assembly constituencies.
While south Mizoram’s Lunglei district officials said that 334 names of Bru voters have been deleted from the electoral rolls in Lunglei South, Thorang and West Tuipui assembly seats.
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Officials said that the final figure of Bru voters will be ascertained when the draft electoral roll is published on August 2.
The final publication of the electoral roll in the current revision is scheduled to be published on October 4.
Earlier, receipt of corresponding requests for deletion from the Tripura state election commission through ERONet was going on at a snail’s pace, prompting the Mizoram election department to take up the issue of deletion of Bru voters on its own after Madhup Vyas took over as the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) recently.
Thousands of Bru voters had fled to Tripura following ethnic tension triggered by the murder of a Mizo forest officer by the erstwhile Bru militant in 1997.
Since then they have been living in transit camps for more than two decades.
The first repatriation attempt in November 2009 was not only scuttled by the murder of a Mizo villager by the Bru militants, but also triggered another round of exodus.
The Centre and governments of Mizoram and Tripura had made at least 9 attempts to repatriate the Bru tribals from Tripura between 2009 and 2019.
On January 16, 2020 the Centre, governments of Mizoram and Tripura and representatives of several Bru organisations had signed an agreement, according to which over 35,000 displaced Bru tribals, who were reluctant to return to Mizoram during repatriation, were allowed to re-settle permanently in Tripura.