The MBDPF leaders also expressed apprehension that the Brus would be facing serious security risks if they go to Mizorm to cast their votes. The CEC while interacting with media on Wednesday was not categorical on questions whether Bru voters in the relief camps would exercise franchise in Mizoram as committed by the Election Commission on April 7, 2014. "Certain decisions have to be made in view of fresh developments after free ration and cash dole were stopped by the Centre in the relief camps," Rawat had said. He said that the Election Commission has been assessing
the situation closely.
The NGO Coordination Committee, a conglomeration of three major NGOs and two student bodies, had on Tuesday urged the EC to defranchise all the Bru voters who chose to stay back in Tripura and did not return to Mizoram. Only 40 of the 5,407 Bru refugee families returned to Mizoram from the six refugee camps in Tripura during the stipulated one month of repatriation process that ended on September 30.