Mizoram: PRISM Begins Campaign to Sue Election Commission

"They have based the declaration on the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act which is why we have decided to file PIL against the ECI. To show our solidarity in filing the PIL, we have organised a signature campaign today where those supporting the PIL can give in their names", said PRISM vice president K Tlanthanga.

It may be recalled that recently, following the Union Home Ministry's decision to give voting rights to around 30,000 people who had fled from Mizoram to Tripura in 1997 in the wake of inter-community violence, The Election Commission has asked the State of Mizoram to revise its rolls for the poll this year and include the members of the internally-displaced community.

As many as 32,876 people of the Reang tribe are set to be repatriated to Mizoram after a tripartite agreement was signed between the Centre, Tripura and Mizoram.

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