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Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya on Monday said the State Government should give up plans to send back the Bru (Reang) refugees to Mizoram. The situation of My BRU/Reang people is grave,” the FB post by Pradyot Kishore said. Also read: Tripura MLA threatens to quit over Bru issuePrem Kumar Reang, who hails from the same ethnic stock as the Brus, is an MLA of the Indigenuous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT). Royal scion Pradyot urged 'others to help our people in this time of crisis'. He claims most of these Brus or Reangs originally hail from Tripura, from where they were displaced due to the commissioning of the Gumti hydel project in the 1970s..