(Express photo/file)Tripura’s BJP-IPFT government has started a survey to identify beneficiaries among Bru migrants who will be settled permanently in the state. Over 5,000 of them returned in nine phases of repatriation, before the January agreement was signed, offering them a similar rehabilitation package within Tripura. Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) president Apeto Sawibunga said he was aware of the survey going on in all six Bru camps. We have organised several protests, strikes and mass sit-in-demonstrations on 11-point demands, which include return of Bru migrants to Mizoram. We will continue our agitation till people evicted from their homes by the Bru migrants at Kanchanpur don’t get a similar rehabilitation package,” he said.

Source: Indian Express January 26, 2020 16:41 UTC