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Armed Forces(special power) act or AFSPA 1958 was passed by the Indian parliament on 11.9.1958 for the states Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland andTripura..Theseborder states were cause of worry from the miscreants across the border.There was hardly any opposition either at that point of time.But the repeated law and order problem in the state forced Government of India to enforce the law. It is only extended to Jammu & Kashmir in 1990.I am sure everybody who keeps some knowledge of current affairs knows Chef Minister of J&K is on the news because of this law recently.War between Center and state,war between CM and Governor, war between Ministers are at the pick..But our point of discussion is not that war today.
What this law is basically? Basically the law empowers armed forces to pick up arrest & interrogate anybody when the Law & order of the state is out of control of the state,when the peace of the area is threatened. On suspicion itself Security forces can shoot anybody and there remains very little or no legal option to contradict armed forces in court. Mr.Omar Abdullah is on the news only recently for this. But one lady is on the news for AFSPA is Irom Sharmila. 11 years that lady is on fast for removal of AFSPA.
On 2nd November 2000,a truck carrying security personnel was bombarded by the outside forces near Malom in Manipur.. Since AFSPA gives power to Army they picked up several citizens just after the incident.. Many people were injured and even got killed .She said “there was no means to stop further violations by the armed forces”. She began her epic fast. Country will never see such fast at any point of time but this issue is related to national security and Government can not compromise with it as well.
She was put in Jail on the charges of Attmpted suicide.She had no problem in that.She neither made any arrangement to bail he out nor she showed any attempt to break her fast..Government and Law had no other alternative but to keep her in custody and “nose feed” her. Human right activists got active. They appealed to the court time again to release.Court release but as soon as she was release she started fast again. She is very weak now,body severely damaged and she looks like very old person.But her resolve is tremendous. Her mother also knows daughter resolve, that is why never visits her. As she could not tolerate such condition of her daughter.
You will not find person like her really in history of any country.What is speciality of the land of Manipur, which can produce such determination? Probably difficult terrain makes such person, who are physically so strong as well as mentally determined. Though I do not agree with the cause of her fast,I salute her determination. I salute Manipur who has produced such rare person with strong willpower.
Congress recently found her suddenly when they faced huge embarrassment due to fast of Baba Ramdev & Anna Hazare. They reminded the whole country that that we have bigger fasting people in comparison to them. Indeed we have bigger fasting people.Who are thy? They are the people of your party run state. Manipur is under economic blockade for last 90 days.Yes you have read rightly.The price of the essential commodities aresky rocketed but the great Chief Minister Okran Ibobi Singh failed to resolve such a small issue
The bone of contention is the possibility of the creation of a new district – the Special Area Demarcated Autonomous Region (SADAR) hills – carving out three sub-divisions of Kangpokpi, Saikul and Saitu Gamphazol from the district of Senapati. The demand for creation of the SADAR hills district has been a long standing one from the Kuki tribe and is spearheaded by the SADAR Hill Districthood Demand Committee (SHDDC). On the other hand, the Nagas living in the four hill districts of Manipur – Ukhrul, Talemlong, Chandel and Senapati – are vehemently opposed to the idea as they do not want any bifurcation of Naga inhabited areas in the state.Tehelka reported. It is not that Congress any crisis there in assembly.They have 35 MLAs in 60 member bench. They have chief Minister who has no competition of leadership within the party. Yet they can not solve such simple issue and let people of the state to starve. The party seems to have lost all ideological identity.Be it Telengana or Manipur they just wait to lie down the issue and get the issue more complicated.
Residents of Manipur continue to wait for a miraculous breakthrough, even as the situation has only become worse – with prices of essential commodities touching the sky and health services worsening.
The situation has only become worse,” said a worried KH Phalin, managing director of the Shija hospital in Manipur. “Despite our best efforts, we have had to turn away seriously ill patients because of lack of life saving drugs and oxygen cylinders.” It is emergency like situation when people have cars but they don’t have any fuel to run those.You have hospital but no medicine to give it to the patients .But the OkramIbobi Singh and Manmohan Singh both are sleeping.
Opposition party has given memorandum to the President to impose President’s rule but the Congress just want o enjoy power as long as they can. Question is people of Manipur has tenacity than any other state.Now even vegetables are black marketed.Nagas and SADAR Hill Districthood Demand Committee have taken Government at ransom. Creating a district is smallest thing any administration can do.It is clear that some forces are keeping the unrest in Manipur alive.
It is people for all other state to protest and save lives of Irom Sharmilla and other Manipur immediately. Let us have the will power to destroy ill minded people who are promoting black marketing and starvation in the state.We have a section of state sponsored media who are deliberately not putting light on this starvation to feel their pockets. It is time to expose them & Save Manipur.
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