By Firstdespatch Desk Aug 15, 2022
Agartala, Aug 16 (FD) Former chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who on Monday hoisted the Tricolour at Bruha Para, a Bru resettlement village in Hadukala of Tripura’s Dhalai district, hailed the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in solving the vexed issue of their repatriation.
Deb in a social media post ex
pressed his happiness as he found the community enjoying the benefits of the special package accorded to them by the Centre under the rehabilitation scheme.
“With the sincerity of our beloved Prime Minister and Union Home Minister, the Bru Riangs living in the state as refugees have overcome the darkness of almost 23 years of uncertainty and are moving towards a secure and prosperous future,” he said in a Facebook post.
He said, I am very happy to spend this glorious moment of Independence Day with Riang brothers and sisters and their families and overwhelmed by their hospitality.
Thousands of Brus had fled Mizoram and moved to Tripura, following ethnic clashes triggered by the murder of a Mizo forest guard in 1997.
The two state governments along with the Centre are repatriating them some in Mizoram and others in Tripura in phases with a rehabilitation package.
Going down the memory lane, the BJP leader reminisced how one of the Bru refugees had once urged him to solve the resettlement issue at the earliest.
Donirung Reang, one of the inmates of Bru refugee camps in Kanchanpur of North Tripura had requested me to solve their problems as soon as possible. Today, they are getting various benefits of the special package given for rehabilitation of Bru people, under the guidance of Modiji, Deb said.
According to an agreement signed in January last year among representatives of the community, the Centre, and the two state governments, Tripura will be rehabilitating 37,136 members of 6,959 Bru families.