Tripura to take care of Bru vote

Election Commission of India instructed that Tripura election officials would conduct polling through postal ballots in Bru relief camps in North Tripura district during the election to the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat to be held on April nine and Mizoram election officials would not be involved in the process.

State joint chief electoral officer H Lalengmawia told PTI that Bru voters in the six relief camps would exercise franchise at the camps and Tripura state government would make all the necessary arrangements.

"The ballot boxes would be brought to Mizoram for counting after the polling is over," Lalengmawia said.

Civil societies in Mizoram have been in the warpath over the Election Commission's repeated decision to allow the Bru voters in Tripura relief camps to exercise franchise outside the state.

The civil societies planned to take out a protest march tomorrow in Aizawl in protest against the Election Commission's decision to allow Bru voters to cast their votes in the relief camps.

The protesters intended to burn the copies of the Bru voters lists and the impugned instruction of the ECI and also warned all the political parties against launching election campaign in the relief camps.