Mizoram: All Bru voters deleted from the electoral rolls, issue settled once and for all
First Published: 4th August, 2023 17:21 IST
According to the draft electoral roll, Mizoram now has 8,38,039 voters
The Mizoram state election commission has deleted a total 6,239 names of Bru voters who have settled permanently in neighbouring Tripura, but were still enrolled in the state electoral roll.
State election officials said that while 4,832 names of Bru voters were deleted from the voter’s lists of 3 assembly constituencies in Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit district, 1,096 and 311 Bru voters were deleted from the electoral rolls in Assam border Kolasib district and Bangladesh border Lunglei district in south Mizoram respectively.
According to the draft electoral roll, Mizoram now has 8,38,039 voters, with female voters outnumbering male voters by 24,545. There are a total of 4,31,292 female voters and 4,06,747 male voters.
Including those deleted through corresponding deletion requests from the Tripura state election commission through ERONet earlier, altogether, 11,997 Bru voters’ names who had settled permanently in Tripura have been deleted by Mizoram election officials ahead of the coming state assembly elections, the officials said.
With this, the vexed issue of deletion of names of Bru voters, who have settled in Tripura, from Mizoram voters’ lists has been settled once and for all, a senior state election official said.
Deletion of Bru names from the state electoral roll through ERONet was undertaken at snail’s pace prompting the state election officials to undertake the work by themselves to speed up the deletion process.
Deletion of Bru voters was undertaken after a quadrilateral agreement was signed between the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mizoram and Tripura state governments and different Bru bodies in the relief camps on January 16, 2020 in which it was agreed that the Bru community in Tripura relief camps who did not like to return to Mizoram are allowed to settle permanently in Tripura.
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