Mizoram bodies want Kolasib DC to be shown the door

Guwahati | Tuesday | 13th November, 2018

Summary:

The Brus in Tripura's camps hail from and are registered as voters from three districts in western Mizoram - Kolasib, Mamit and Lunglei. AIZAWL: No sooner had the crisis surrounding the chief electoral officer SB Shashank appeared to be over than another controversy came up in poll-bound Mizoram . "Mizo civil society organizations in Mizoram have been demanding that Brus from the six refugee camps in Tripura be included in the Mizoram voter list only after they return to the state and that they vote in Mizoram and not from their camps. The powerful NGO Coordination Committee, which fought tooth and nail to ensure Shashank's ouster, now wants the deputy commissioner of Kolasib Arun T to step down.At the centre lies the same issue - Bru voters. "He is trying to conceal what he did..