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Electoral roll revision of Brus only after their return: EC
Why it is in news?
- The Election Commission of India has accepted the suggestion of the Mizoram government that electoral roll revision for Bru community, lodged in the six relief camps in Tripura, would be conducted only after they return to Mizoram
- Principal Secretary of Home Department Lalnunmawia Chuaungo said that the EC had earlier instructed the State election department to undertake revision of voters’ lists in the Bru relief camps, which was objected by the State government.
- The State government had suggested to the commission that the revision of electoral rolls should be taken up after the Brus return to Mizoram from Tripura,
- Civil societies have all along been objecting to the conduct of revision of voters’ lists and exercise of franchise by Bru displaced people in the relief camps outside the State.
- The repatriation of Brus lodged in the six relief camps is scheduled to commence from August 14 and would be completed by September 10 and preparations were in full swing in the three districts where the repatriated Brus were proposed to be resettled.
- At least 32,876 Brus belonging to 5,407 families would be resettled in 48 villages in Mamit district, 10 villages in Kolasib district and four villages in Lunglei district.
Source
The Hindu