Aizawl: A total 45 per cent votes were cast through postal ballot in the six Bru relief camps in north Tripura for the 40-member Mizoram Assembly today.
"The overall turn out has been 45 per cent. Polling is, however, still on at Naisinghpara camp. We have sought permission to extend polling in that camp for one more day.
There are large queues still in other camps also," Mizoram Joint Chief Electoral Officer H Lalengmawia said.
There are a total 11,612 voters in the six camps where the Bru refugees have been lodged since they fled Mizoram in 1997.
State Chief Electoral Officer Ashwani Kumar told PTI that the polls in the camps were held under strict supervision of a special observer and seven others, and conducted by 86 polling officials including six nodal officers.
The polling party, comprising 74 desk officials and seven nodal officers, went to Tripura via Zomuantlang hamlet as Mizo Students Union organised a blockade in Langkhai river at Kanhmun village on Mizoram-Tripura border on Sunday.
Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath, during his recent Mizoram visit, had said that Bru voters lodged in the Tripura camps were allowed to exercise franchise in the camps in accordance with a Delhi High Court order of 1999.
"The overall turn out has been 45 per cent. Polling is, however, still on at Naisinghpara camp. We have sought permission to extend polling in that camp for one more day.
There are large queues still in other camps also," Mizoram Joint Chief Electoral Officer H Lalengmawia said.
There are a total 11,612 voters in the six camps where the Bru refugees have been lodged since they fled Mizoram in 1997.
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State Chief Electoral Officer Ashwani Kumar told PTI that the polls in the camps were held under strict supervision of a special observer and seven others, and conducted by 86 polling officials including six nodal officers.
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The polling party, comprising 74 desk officials and seven nodal officers, went to Tripura via Zomuantlang hamlet as Mizo Students Union organised a blockade in Langkhai river at Kanhmun village on Mizoram-Tripura border on Sunday.
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Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath, during his recent Mizoram visit, had said that Bru voters lodged in the Tripura camps were allowed to exercise franchise in the camps in accordance with a Delhi High Court order of 1999.
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