Aizawl, April 8: The election to the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram has been postponed to April 11 due to a three-day shutdown and poll boycott decision by NGOs and students’ bodies, a politician aforesaid Tuesday.
The polling was earlier regular to be command April nine.
“The election commission considering the prevailing scenario in Mizoram, postponed the lone Lok Sabha polls in Mizoram to Friday. The commission issued this directive Monday night,” Mizoram Chief Electoral officer Aswani Kumar told.
He said: “In read of the fresh directives of the committee we are taking measures consequently to carry the poll April 11 rather than April 9.”
Another election commission official aforesaid that the 72-hour strike, that began Monday, in Mizoram affected the movement of polling officers across the state, bordering Myanmar and Bangla Desh.
Normal life was affected in Mizoram since Monday as six NGOs and student teams entailed a three-day shutdown and boycott of the April 9 election to the lone Lok Sabha seat from the state to protest postal ballot facility to the social group refugees living in Tripura for the past 17 years.
“There was no untoward incident anyplace within the state so far,” a Mizoram police voice aforesaid however admitted that ordinary life was badly affected across the mountainous state.
Government and non-government offices, shops, markets and other institutions remained closed the capital town Aizawl and other parts of the northeastern state. Most vehicles, except those of security forces, were off the roads, police aforesaid.
Six voluntary organisations and students’ groups led by the Young Mizo Association (YMA) called the 72-hour state-wide strike and urged people to boycott April 9 polling.
