Road blockade delays EC officials' visit to Bru relief camps

Election officials could not leave for Tripura from Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit town to conduct special summary revision of Mizoram voters lists in the six Bru relief camps for the second day today due to road blockade by NGOs and political parties.
Mamit district Deputy Commissioner Lalbiaksangi told PTI over phone that Police did not use force today to disperse the agitators as old women and children were among the volunteers blocking the roads near the Deputy Commissioner's office where the election officials were camping since Sunday last.
The police, highly outnumbered, failed to disperse the agitators by using lathis yesterday.

"We tried to follow the instructions of the Election Commission by conducting special revision of electoral rolls in the Tripura relief camps, but the officials could not leave Mamit due to the road blockade," the DC said.
The NGO Coordination Committee comprising five major civil societies and five mainstream parties opposed the EC's instruction to conduct revision of voters lists in Tripura relief camps.
They held that the Brus in the relief camps refused to return to Mizoram despite repeated appeals by Mizo civil societies and also several attempts to repatriate them by the government.