TIWN Nov 21, 2018
AGARTALA, Nov 21 (TIWN): Election Commission declared to organize polling for Bru refugees residing in Tripura at the inter-state border village of Kanhmun in Mamit district of Mizoram.
As the place of voting for 11,232 Bru voters has become the most controversial issue in the run-up to the Mizoram Assembly polls, leading to replacement of the Chief Electoral Officer SB Shashank in less than two weeks ahead of the elections to the 40-member House.
"We have been informed by the Election Commission that the polling for the Brus must be arranged at Kanhmun village inside Mizoram territory. We have started our preparations for that," an official said.
Kanhmun is an inter-state border village between Mizoram and Tripura. The six camps of the Bru refugees are located between two km and 10 km from the inter-state border between Tripura and Mizoram.
On yesterday NGO Coordination Committee chairperson Vanlalruata also raised question, "Why Brus want to come here for vote, where they don't want to live at all ? Govt never bear expenditure for anybody's travel during election. Then why it's different for Brus ?"
To decrease the expenditure however, the election has been conducted in border village.
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