Tripura: Joint panel on indefinite strike against Bru resettlement

Agartala: Annoyed over the decision of the Tripura government, the joint movement committee of Jampui Hill Mizo Convention and Kanchanpur Nagarik Surakha Mancha has started their indefinite hunger strike from Wednesday at Kanchanpur, around 165 km from Agartala in North Tripura district.

Speaking with reporters, Dr Zairemthaima Pachuau, chairman of the joint committee and general secretary of Jampui Hill Mizo Convention, said that the indefinite hunger strike was called to oppose the government’s decision to re-settle the displaced Bru people in Kanchanpur subdivision without having any consultation and taking the local population into confidence.

“We, the joint movement committee of Mizo Convention and Nagarik Suraksha Mancha, have organised a sit-in indefinite hunger strike here at Netaji Club in Kanchanpur subdivision. We have been demanding the re-settlement of the Bru displaced people outside the Kanchanpur subdivision and away from the boundary of Mizo inhabitants,” Pachuau said.