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Bru Community in Lok Sabha elections
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- Bru migrants, who have resettled in Tripura, voted for the Lok Sabha elections for the first time since their permanent resettlement.
- This was occurred as a result of a four-party agreement involving the central government, and the state governments of Tripura and Mizoram, back in 2020.
- They had previously taken part in the 2023 Assembly elections in Tripura.
- In previous Lok Sabha polls, Bru migrants voted at transit camp facilitation centres in 2009 and 2014, and special polling centres in Mizoram's Mamit district during 2019.
- Around 32,000 Bru, also known as Reang, fled Mizoram following ethnic clashes in 1997, seeking refuge in Tripura.
- After two decades, a quadripartite agreement was signed on July 3, 2018.
- It was aiming at repatriate 5,407 Bru families, totalling 32,876 people, from temporary camps in Tripura to Mizoram.
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