All Manipur Nupi Marup raised the issue of AFSPA in the recently held 20th All India Women Conference for National Federation of Indian Women at Visakhapatnam and demanded immediate repeal the Draconian Act from the State.
Maisnam ‘O’ Sakhi, president of the women organization who also took part the conference informed media persons that the current unrest situation in Manipur were critically discussed during the conference.
549 delegates from 23 different states of India strongly condemned the imposition of AFSPA in some parts of North eastern States including Manipur. All Manipur Nupi Marup also denounced the BJP led central Government for not implementing the recommendation of the Jeevan Ready Commission Report during the conference.
Sakhi further informed that during the meet, they received lots of solidarity messages regarding the Sharmila’s 13 years long struggle against AFSPA.
The women organization also rose the prolong problem face by people while traveling the two national highways in Manipur due to non deployment of High way protection force, said Sakhi.