Mizoram | Youth, women dominate state’s electoral politics
By migrator | Apr 11, 2019, 10:53 IST
AIZAWL, April 11, 2019: Young voters, who constitute around 64 per cent of the total 787,777 electorate, will dominate the electoral politics of Mizoram's lone Lok Sabha seat which goes to the polls on Thursday, officials and political analysts said here on Wednesday.
Women voters would also play a significant role in the parliamentary polls.
Women voters again outnumbered men in Mizoram. Of the total, 4,04,169 are women and 3,83,602 men. There are six third gender voters.
Mizoram Chief Electoral officer Ashish Kundra said that the young voters in the age group of 18 to 40 years, constitute 63.68 per cent of the total 787,777 electorate.
Besides, the election to the lone Lok Sabha seat, by-polls for the Aizawl West-1 Assembly seat will also take place on Thursday.
Chief Electoral officer Ashish Kundra said that following the instructions of the Election Commission, 15 special polling stations have been set up at the Mizoram-Tripura border village of Kanhmun, where 12,081 tribal refugee voters would cast their votes.
The poll panel has also asked the Tripura government to provide logistical support including transportation and security to the Reang tribal voters from their seven relief camps in northern Tripura to Kanhmun village in Mizoram on Thursday.
The 12,081 tribal refugee voters are among the 35,000 emigrants living in the seven relief camps in northern Tripura for the past 22 years after they fled their homes in three Mizoram districts in the wake of communal tension.