Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla on Saturday could not attend the
meeting convened by Union home minister Rajnath Singh at Agartala, the
Tripura capital, due to late receipt of invitation, state home
department officials said. David Lalthangliana, OSD of the state home
department told PTI that Lal Thanhawla was already in the
Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai town when the official invitation for
the meeting with Singh and Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar was
received. The meeting was convened to discuss the proposed continuation
of repatriation of Brus lodged in six relief camps in North Tripura
district for the last 17 years. The Bru evacuees left Mizoram after
communal tension in October 1997.