Mizoram Assembly to introduce ‘Disturbed Areas’ Bill

Aizawl: Mizoram will introduce the ‘Mizoram Disturbed Areas Bill, 2015’  in the next Assembly session in order to enable the government to declare any militant-hit areas in the state as ‘Disturbed’ areas.
Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana, while addressing the ruling Congress workers at the ‘Congress Bhavan’ at Aizawl stated that the bill was in the process being drafted and would be vetted by the state law department as soon as possible .
The next session of the Assembly is likely to be convened in July as the Vote-on-Account passed by the house in March was only for the first four months of the current fiscal commencing from the month of April.
The opposition parties and some civil societies opposed to the proposal saying that the people in the area would not only be oppressed by the security personnel and human rights violations would hit the area but also would result in further alienation of the Hmar community .
The Manipur-based HPC (Democrats), now at  loggerheads with the Mizoram was formed in 1994 by Lalhmingthanga Sanate, one of the top leaders of the HPC with other cadre unhappy with the agreement and went underground again. (PTI)