Starving Brus in exile in Tripura can't travel to Mizoram to vote

Guwahati | Friday | 12th October, 2018

Summary:

The Brus want a better repatriation package for going back.The Brus voters are spread over nine constituencies in three western Mizoram districts. There are many old people among us who will find it difficult to travel to Mizoram to cast their votes. Of the 11,232 Bru voters in Tripura, 8,777 are from the Mamit district, 1,732 from the Kolasib district and 723 from southern Mizoram’s Lunglei district. Msha said the polling station might be set up at Kanhmun village that divides Mizoram from Tripura. For the past 21 years, the Centre had been mounting pressure on the people to vacate the camps and return to their homeland in Mizoram..