Imphal: A joint initiative of various organizations and movements, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, is launching a two-month nationwide signature campaign from October 2, 2011 to create awareness and generate public support for Sharmila and her fight against AFSPA.
“Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign have been working on the issue of Irom Sharmila Chanu since a long time. Now we have decided to start a signature campaign from 3 pm of October 2 till December 10, 2011 in all state capitals and major cities of India,” informed a statement issued by the joint initiative. “The campaign aims at spreading awareness in public about Sharmila, who is on a hunger strike since 2000, and to generate public support for the cause,” added the statement.
Through the initiative, the signature campaign will demand the initiation of positive talks with Irom Sharmila and to listen to her demand seriously and to send a special team of doctors to examine her health.
It will also demand sending of all party delegates and members of national women commission and national human rights commission to visit and take interest in the demand she has raised by fasting for over one decade now.
The campaign will culminate with the handing over of the signatures to the president of India on International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2011. (NNN)