The Election Commission of India (ECI) has enrolled over 5,600 displaced Bru tribals from Mizoram as permanent voters in Tripura.
The enrolled Bru voters, who originally hailed from Mizoram, are living in Tripura since 1997, and were settled permanently in the neighbouring state in accordance with the quadripartite agreement signed in January 2020.
Mizoram joint Chief Electoral Officer David Liansanglura Pachuau said that the names of 1,594 Bru voters from nine assembly constituencies out of 5,600 have been removed from Mizoram electoral roll so far as per the corresponding deletion requests received from the Tripura election department.
News agency PTI reported that as many as 11,759 Bru voters, including 5,751 females, who have been allowed to resettle in Tripura, were enrolled in Mizoram. Officials of Tripura said that the process of resettlement of about 35,000 Bru voters is in progress.
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