New Delhi: Issues ranging from repatriation of Reang refugees from Tripura to Mizoram to death and devastation caused by rampaging hordes of elephants were raised by members in Lok Sabha on Friday.
CPI(M) member Jitendra Chaudhury urged the Centre to initiate steps to repatriate members of the Reang (Bru) community who were staying in refugee shelters in Tripura for the past 17 years to their original homes in Mizoram.
Raising the matter in Zero Hour, he said a number of earlier attempts had not yielded results and the Reangs remained in the Tripura shelters since ethnic clashes took place 17 years ago.
Chaudhury said the government should organise discussions between the community leaders of Mizoram and the Reangs before repatriating the displaced people.
Another BJP member Rameshwar Teli alleged that minimum wages were not being paid to workers working in the mines of Northeastern Coalfields in Assam. He also sought the opening of some closed mines and steps to prevent theft of coal from there. ( PTI)
