BNLF awaits govt reply to peace talks offer

AIZAWL, March 14: Mizoram government is yet to give its reply to the offer for peace dialogue by the Bru National Front (BNLF), according to a top government officials, reports PTI. The officials who preferred to remain anonymous told PTI that the BNLF general secretary Solomon Prophul had written a letter to the state's Home Minister Tawnluia offering peace dialogue with the participation of officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and representatives of the Bru Welfare Association of Mizoram. The BNLF also conditions for talks saying the venue should be outside Mizoram, either at Kolkata or Guwahati and that Mizoram government should declare unilateral ceasefire. Meanwhile, the Home Minister said that the state government had been asking the BNLF to lay down arms and come overground and he did not rule out a dialogue to solve the problems.