Mizoram | Don’t provide transport to Brus on poll day: Civil societies

AIZAWL, November 20, 2018: NGO Coordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of civil societies and student bodies in Mizoram, has urged all political parties to refrain from arranging transport for Bru voters lodged in Tripura relief camps, during the November 28 polls.

The committee's chairman, Vanlalruata told PTI that the civil societies had also appealed to the parties and candidates not to solicit votes from the 11,000-odd Brus housed in the six relief camps in North Tripura district.

Election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly will be held on November 28. The civil societies, however, did not object to the parties' campaigning inside Mizoram.

"We do not like election campaign in the relief camps where many inmates refused to return to Mizoram despite several attempts by the Centre and the state government. The civil societies also made repeated pleas to them to return," Vanlalruata said. Besides, organising transportation by a political party or candidate for voters is also against the election laws, he said.

(PTI)