AGARTALA, March 17 (TIWN): Bru refugse have shown mass agitation in front of Civil Secretariat today following an unsuccessful meeting held on yesterday at the Secretariat. The agitators said, "Yesterday Govt of India's officials held a meeting with our leaders and the state govt officials. They are ready to give us Rs. 1.30 lakhs to each family with some other facilities and 5000 rupees per families for 2 years and 2 years ration-free. But GOI's package failed to mitigate our demands. We want to tell both state and central govt to consider our rights to lives as we are human beings too". "The day Govt of India will fulfill our demands, we will go back to our state, but with the minimum package, it's possible for us to go back at Mizoram". Yesterday a meeting among Tripura Govt led by Chief Secretary Sanjeev Ranjan and the officials from Govt of India and Brus was held, but the meeting ended in vain. A Govt office source said, "The Reang refugees, camping at North District who called themselves as ‘Bru’ said that unless their all demands are fulfilled, they will not go back".Despite all out efforts, repartition of Bru refugees, sheltered in six relief camps in Kanchanpur subdivision, have been virtually derailed once again.

The Central government has already offered a rehabilitation package to those refugee families who want to return to Mizoram.

A section of refugees who refused to turn up for the identification process claimed that there is no use of returning back to their home town as the package announced by the central government would be expired after two years, therefore after two years there would be no one to look after them, claimed the refugees.

Today the agitators all together have 'denied' to go back and declared to 'continue' living here in Tripura till their all demands are fulfilled or they will be waiting for the SC's verdict.