Aizwal, July 9 -- Mizoram's apex student organisation, the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), on Wednesday challenged Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Garima Gupta's assertion that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has not recorded any abnormal growth in voter numbers, alleging significant increases in electors in several Chakma-dominated villages.

Addressing a press conference in Aizawl, MZP leaders said their analysis of the draft electoral rolls, published on July 4, revealed unusually high growth in the number of voters in villages inhabited predominantly by the Chakma community in southern Mizoram.

According to the student body, while voter numbers in several Chakma-majority villages increased by between 50 and 376 ...