Tripura Bengali Body Demands Govt to Send Brus Back to Mizoram

Agartala, January 25, 2020:

All India Bengali Chatra Sanstha President Chandan Chatterjee, pointing out that the recent quadripartite agreement signed in New Delhi to settle Brus in Tripura permanently would encourage communal persecution in the Northeast, urged the Government to send them back to Mizoram, their original home.

Expressing his views here today, Chatterjee, who had recently addressed a mammoth rally in Kanchanpur against the recently signed Bru pact, said that people should condemn the Government's for its role in settling the Brus in Tripura. "Some community would be once again subjected to persecution, having known the fact that they could be settled somewhere else in the region", Chatterjee told this reporter.

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Reang refugees who have come here to Tripura as refugees turned the resident Bengalis into refugees, Chatterjee charged.

The people who were permanent resident of this land had to live in police camps of Anandabazar located some distance away from their own land, but the BJP government did not announce any rehabilitation package for them. "The people who incurred a loss of Rs 50,000 or so were being offered a compensation of Rs 5,000 or Rs 10,000....we reject this policy”, he said.

“The Reangs (Brus) had been being offered rehabilitation package..tthey ought to be sent back. And those who were attacked, persecuted, and became refugees because of Brus have to be given same model package. The state government should talk to Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the Bengali-issue too", the student leader charged.

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Chatterjee opined that all of this was being done to consolidate tribal votes in the forthcoming ADC elections, and also threatened of a series of movements in the future.

He added, “The ADC elections were around the corner...they just wanted to consolidate tribal votes for the BJP. But we want to warn them, this is not the end...a series of protests will be held to condemn this move."

“This is a sheer example of vote bank politics. Due to this reason, the government has joined hands with communal people who had once given the call of ‘Ulo Party'. They did not even think about our national integration and all” he told reporters today.

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