Aizawl: The 12-hour Mizoram bandh sponsored by the Save Mizoram Committee (SMC) comprising of all the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), student bodies and all major political parties completely paralysed normal life in the state on September 26.

All the government offices, banks, financial institutions and educational institutions closed for the day and all the business houses downed shutters, as people stayed indoors and vehicles also remained out of the roads.

Police said that the bandh passed off peacefully and there was no report of any untoward incident from any part of the state.

The SMC called the bandh to protest the Election Commission's move to include 14,616 Bru voters, now in Tripura refugee camps, in the Mizoram voters' lists.

SMC leaders said the Election Commission's move to include voters now residing in other states was gross violation of the provisions of the Representation of People Act, 1951, and the organisation will take up the matter in the Guwahati High Court.

Mizoram election officials, who had collected the names of Brus from the Tripura refugee camps following instruction from the Election Commission, had recently submitted the lists to the commission.

The SMC decided to legally take up the matter and also threatened to launch "illegal movement" if the EC insisted on the flouting election laws.

PTI