The polling officials, who will supervise voting in the six Bru relief camps in North Tripura district in line with the November 25 Mizoram Assembly election, have reached the camps today.
The 11,612-strong Bru electorate, lodged in the camps, would be exercising their franchise through postal ballots on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The polling party, comprising 74 desk officials and seven nodal officers, went to Tripura via Zomuantlang hamlet as the activists of the Mizo Students Union organised a blockade at the Mizoram-Tripura border at Kanhmun village yesterday.
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The students objected to the conduct of polling in the camps by polling officials sent from Mizoram, alleging that the Brus refused to return to the state despite several pleas from the Centre, the state government and the civil societies.
State Joint Chief Electoral Officer H Lalengmawia said that three platoons of police personnel had been deployed at the relief camps to ensure a free and fair polling.
Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath had said during a visit to Mizoram recently that Bru voters lodged in the Tripura camps were entitled to to vote in the camps in accordance with the Delhi High Court order of 1999.
