Aizawl, Oct 21 : Two Mizo women, of Mizoram-Assam border town Bairabi, were given eviction orders by the NGO Coordination Committee of the town, asking them to leave the town and join their non-tribal husbands.
The eviction orders were slapped on Mapuii and Zorampari and some of their belongings were thrown out of their homes on October 18 by the activists of the NGO Coordination Committee of the town, boasting the only rail link between the state and the rest of the world. All the political party leaders also participated in the eviction.
C Lalbiakenga, president of the Young Mizo Association (YMA), Bairabi Hmar Veng branch and Lalbiakzama, secretary of the Joint YMA, said the YMA had passed a resolution in 2001 that any village girl marrying a non-tribal should live with her husband, where the latter belonged.
Mapuii married a non-tribal timber trader from Rajasthan in 2005 and Zorampari also married a non-tribal two years later. Both of them have children from their respective marriages.
The NGO Coordination Committee first served the eviction notices in September, asking the women to leave Mizoram before the end of September and a reminder on October 11, after which their belongings were thrown out of their homes on Tuesday.
Mapuii was reported to have been in Rajasthan, visiting her husband, when the NGO activists entered her house and threw out some of her belongings.
Deputy commissioner of Kolasib district, Niharika Rai, appealed to the NGO Coordination Committee to cancel the eviction notices and sent additional DC, Zairemmawia, and sub-divisional police officer, Francis L Ralte, to Bairabi on Tuesday.
The officials informed the NGOs that they had no authority to evict the women and appealed to them not to take law into their hands. The NGO Coordination Committee, however, rejected the appeals, saying, "we would take steps for the good of our society and the town."
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