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Irom Sharmila hopes to meet Modi in Delhi

| | May 28, 2014, at 08:43 pm
New Delhi, May 28 (IBNS): Social activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for the past 13 years, has arrived in Delhi hoping to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"I'll try to meet the Prime Minister and highlight the problems faced by the people after imposition of the Act in the state in 1980," she told reporters in Imphal on Tuesday before leaving for Delhi.
 
The 42-year-old activist known as the 'Iron Lady of Manipur' said that she would urge the Prime Minister to repeal the Act that had been called "draconian" by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but a reform has long been dilly-dallied.
 
Sharmila meanwhile arrived in the national capital following a summon issued by the metropolitan magistrate of Patiala House court in connection with a case relating to a 2006 hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar.
 
Sharmila, who is fed through her nose at JNIMS Hospital in Imphal, launched her fast unto death in 2000 after 10 civilians were killed by Assam Rifles personnel at Malom area near Imphal airport.
 
She continues to fight a lonely battle against the AFSPA that gives sweeping powers to the armed forces when they fight separatist insurgents or leftist radicals but has long been under criticism for their misuse.
 
 
(Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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