Need Tripura help to drop names of Bru voters: Mizoram

AIZAWL: At least 5,600 Brus displaced from neighbouring Mizoram have been enrolled as permanent voters in Tripura. But the Mizoram election department has deleted only 1,365 Bru names from the state's electoral registers to date.
Of the little over 11,000 Bru voters sheltered in Tripura relief camps since the later half of 1997 and enrolled in Mizoram's electoral rolls, more than half of them were included in Tripura's voters' lists in a phased manner.
The Tripura election officials said the 5,600 Bru voters included in the state electoral rolls would be treated as permanent residents after they are shifted to government-designated villages and once their names are included in the register of resident document.
The election department would issue photo identity cards only after the block development officers confirm that their names are included in the RoR.
Mizoram joint chief electoral officer David Liansanglura Pachuau said the deletion of the names of Bru voters was undertaken at a snail's pace as corresponding requests received from the Tripura election officials through ERONet was extremely slow.
"We promptly and automatically deleted most of the names received from Tripura, but the process could not be expedited," Pachuau said. The process of enrolment of Bru voters, who were to be resettled permanently, in Tripura's electoral rolls was scheduled to be completed by August.