I believe PM Modi will repeal AFSPA from Manipur: Irom

November 06, 2014 11:36

On the day she began the 15th year of her fast to protest AFSPA in Manipur, Irom Sharmila Chanu said she firmly believed Prime Minister Narendra Modi would repeal the controversial law from the state.

"When I watched what happened in Godhra, I thought Modi is a very dangerous man. But in 2009, I dreamt that he was standing in front of me and smiling. And now, he has become PM. Since then, I have a firm conviction that this man will repeal AFSPA from Manipur, he is capable of doing it. That is my gut instinct, that is my conviction,' she said from a room in the special ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences that has been her home for over a decade.

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