AIZAWL, April 30 – The 12-hour bandh called by Mizoram's three major Opposition parties paralysed normal life but passed off peacefully, reports PTI. Except policemen and a few bandh organisers, people did not venture outside as all the Central and State government offices, financial and educational institutions remained closed.
The organisers, the Congress, Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) and Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) combine, called off the bandh at 1530 hrs, one-and-a-half-hour earlier "as the bandh was a total success."
The bandh was organised in protest against the alleged forcible collection of postal ballot papers issued to 3,620 Bru voters now lodged in Tripura. The organisers alleged that the underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) leaders collected the postal ballot papers intending to use them as a bargaining chip in the ongoing talk with the State government.