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'Bru rehabilitation a milestone in restoring dignity and livelihoods'
The Statesman
|December 23, 2024
Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed his profound happiness on Sunday while addressing members of the rehabilitated Bru tribal community in a remote village in Tripura.
"I am more happy than you. Prime Minister Modi ji is also very happy that we could rehabilitate you after 40 years," he said during his visit.
This story is from the December 23, 2024 edition of The Statesman.
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