Irom Sharmila to break 16-year fast, to contest elections in Manipur

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NEW DELHI: Manipuri rights activist Irom Sharmila+ , who has been demanding the repeal of controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act ( AFSPA+ ), has decided to break her fast of 16 years and said she will fight elections instead.

Highlights

• Irom Sharmila will break her fast on August 9.
• She will fight elections in Manipur.
• She has been on fast since November 2000.
• She has been demanding the repeal of AFSPA.

"I will break my fast as the government has failed to give any positive response. I will fight elections to resolve the issues," she said on Tuesday.

She will break her fast on August 9.

Assembly elections in Manipur are scheduled in 2017.

Irom has been on a hunger strike since November 2000, when 10 civilians were killed by security forces at a bus stop near Imphal airport.

The fasting agitator, who is being fed through a nasal tube, has justified using the fast as a weapon to achieve her goal of repealing AFSPA.

"Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, had resorted to fasts while making certain demands," she has said.

She had been arrested, released and then re-arrested from time to time on the charge of making an attempt to commit suicide.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...elections-in-Manipur/articleshow/53396065.cms

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Finally this lady is doing something logical.

 

[GodToons]

Welcome to the democratic way to expressing the dissent. Hopefully she will not behave like Kejriwal

 

[Desist]

This is very good news.

Now she can join the democratic system...and will also be held responsible for the results of her actions if they are implemented.

 

[baajey]

this is very good news for the ppl of manipur.
she should contest the elections. most definitely, if there is no horseplay, she will win out of sympathy.
then she should kick out the AFSPA.

This is very good news.

Now she can join the democratic system...and will also be held responsible for the results of her actions if they are implemented.

.......how about a one-off political system on the lines of AFSPA ? surely that would absolve her of her actions. but then, with or without it, our netas are absolved of their crimes on daily basis.

 

[Star Wars]

Reports that she might join BJP, Apparantly BJP is in touch with her for CM position.

 

[adil_minhas]

I am glad. She wants to get married and start a family as well. Manipur is a beautiful place. Beautiful people.

 

[MKC]

this is very good news for the ppl of manipur.
she should contest the elections. most definitely, if there is no horseplay, she will win out of sympathy.
then she should kick out the AFSPA.


.......how about a one-off political system on the lines of AFSPA ? surely that would absolve her of her actions. but then, with or without it, our netas are absolved of their crimes on daily basis.

Reports that she might join BJP, Apparantly BJP is in touch with her for CM position.

It's good news.
But first she must unite not only people of Manipur but people of all North-East, I think AFSPA isn't problem in North-East problem is too much diversity.
Each of community is fighting against another that's problem.
If she does this I won't have problem in support her candidature for PM of India.

 

[baajey]

It's good news.
But first she must unite not only people of Manipur but people of all North-East, I think AFSPA isn't problem in North-East problem is too much diversity.
Each of community is fighting against another that's problem.
If she does this I won't have problem in support her candidature for PM of India.

AFSPA is a time bomb. its blasting in Kashmir, tomorrow it will be NE.
only ppl who have tasted AFSPA in the wrong side will know what i am talking about.
AFSPA must go. security agencies are committing grave crimes in the name of security. 1 instance of such crimes will give birth to more extremists.

 

[MKC]

AFSPA is a time bomb. its blasting in Kashmir, tomorrow it will be NE.
only ppl who have tasted AFSPA in the wrong side will know what i am talking about.
AFSPA must go. security agencies are committing grave crimes in the name of security. 1 instance of such crimes will give birth to more extremists.

It's army which says we won't work without AFSPA.
Give charge to CRPF or State police if you aren't giving us some power.

 

[T90TankGuy]

Reports that she might join BJP, Apparantly BJP is in touch with her for CM position.

where did you hear that?

 

[Star Wars]

where did you hear that?

twitteratis, nothing reliable. Would be a wierd combination of Leftist leader in a right wing party

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

AFSPA is a time bomb. its blasting in Kashmir, tomorrow it will be NE.
only ppl who have tasted AFSPA in the wrong side will know what i am talking about.
AFSPA must go. security agencies are committing grave crimes in the name of security. 1 instance of such crimes will give birth to more extremists.

May i ask u one thing . . .how much time did u spend in Kashmir and manipur to know whether AFSPA is been misused or not ?

 

[baajey]

May i ask u one thing . . .how much time did u spend in Kashmir and manipur to know whether AFSPA is been misused or not ?

my whole childhood was spent in the northeast. assam, manipur, arunachal n tripura. been to nagaland as my relatives were there.
no exposure to mizoram or sikkim.
not much with JnK too, only been there a couple of times.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Foolish woman ; wasted 16 years of her Life

By the way she will have to SIGN AN affidavit which says

" I believe in the constituiton of India and I will UPHOLD India's UNITY and territorial integrity "