Tripura Election An official said on Thursday that the department has appealed to the Bru refugees living in relief camps in the state to go to resettlement villages and enroll their names in the voter list.
The special revision of electoral rolls is scheduled to end on December 8 to pave the way for publication of the final electoral rolls for all the 60 assembly constituencies.
Assembly elections in Tripura are due early next year.
Chief Minister Manik Saha and Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Verma held a special review meeting on the progress of Bru rehabilitation on Wednesday, where the CM urged the Bru leaders to go to the designated resettlement village to get the benefits.
“The chief minister has categorically appealed to the Bru leaders to ensure that all the remaining Bru refugees who are still living in relief camps, settle in the 12 designated places identified by the state,” the official quoted Saha as saying.
Saha said that the administration is ready to extend all possible help to the Bru refugees after they are shifted to new places under the historic agreement signed in January 2020.
The election department has set a target to enroll 20,000 Bru voters from around 6,300 families. “A total of 7,165 Bru names have already been enrolled in Tripura, while the rest are expected to be registered in the state’s electoral rolls,” Additional Chief Electoral Officer Subhash Bandyopadhyay told PTI.
“We urged the Bru leaders present in the meeting to go to the designated resettlement villages and register their names during the ongoing revision of the voter list. If they do not do so, they will be deprived of the right to vote in the 2023 assembly elections.
Meanwhile, the state government has rejected the proposal to set up a resettlement village for the Bru refugees in Kanchanpur sub-division. However, they will be rehabilitated at new places – Gomti and South Tripura district.
Kanchanpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) said, “All Bru refugees who have taken shelter in four relief camps at Kanchanpur in North Tripura district will move to new places by November 30 or their ration will be stopped from December 1.
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