Dear Honourable Prime
Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji,
A hearty congratulation from
a young woman demanding for Right to Life under the
Constitution of India to the newly elected Prime Minister of
India!
First of all, I seek your
pardon for any lack of etiquette in addressing you as the
Prime Minster of India. I, Irom Sharmila Chanu, the lone
hunger striker for repeal of the AFSPA, 1958 from the whole
of areas in the country that come under the purview of this
act, would like to draw your kind attention to my humble
appeal for getting, the innocent people numbering around 4
Crores, free from the injustice, meted out by the Parliament
of India.
Why should the Indian
Parliament treat us, the inhabitants of the North East
Region of India differently from the rests of people in
different states of India at large by declaring our region
as disturbed areas, under which the Constitution provides,
the Armed Forces, even to the rank of a Havildar, the power
to kill with full impunity, torture and rape anyone on mere
suspicion of being an insurgent in their eyes? Why should so
many women be exposed helplessly to their sexual pleasures?
Holding with such Licence to kill under the AFSPA, 1958, the
Government of India has been committing thousands of the
killings and enforced disappearance of innocent people over
the last few decades. This has resulted into same number of
surviving widows and thousands of lamenting parents for
their love ones leaving behind thousands of women headed
families!
The Chiefs of the Indian
Army remain strongly against the repealing of the AFSPA only
because they are too scared and insecure in their movements
without excess power provided by this Act. As the
consequence of their barbaric acts towards the innocent
people, who are considered inferior and wild stupid beings
in their eyes, and are very likely to retaliate suddenly and
stealthily against the inhumanness of the Indian Armies, out
of rage amongst the masses. With such mindset of the army
chiefs’ tactics of controlling the insurgency and
upholding AFSPA in the north east states of India and the
state of Jammu and Kashmir has only been helpful in
begetting more and more insurgent parties in the long run. I
consider, the only solution to the liberation or separation
movements in the north east region of India will be none
other than changing of the mindset of the mainstream masses
and power holders in politics at large to stop
discriminations and step-motherly treatments meted out to at
the looks of Mongoloid features.
Please, do provide us with
the basic right of being a human so that we can live with
self-respect and dignity. Under the disturbed areas status
the State has exploited our tourism industry by restricting
any tourist from abroad which should provide us large income
in exchange of our traditional manual products with which we
would also expand our knowledge and horizons from such
interactions with advanced countries of the world.
Please don’t see me as
a supporter of any insurgent party by the only notion of the
way I protest against. Instead, please do see me as
conscientious human being who doesn’t want to have a
permanent home and food nor adopt any particular religion or
citizenship like the birds in nature so that I am
accessible, wherever and whenever needed. I want to wonder
around in the world as long as my body and soul are in
union. And, I want nothing from this mundane earth, except
enjoying the feeling of Importance with my birth as a
rational, social animal to the following generation after my
departure from the world, In that case, the future
generations who would be born after me and whose knowledge
about my living past would also be from the history, only
will surely be want to transform the bad side of my own
being into good, owing to the glory of my good actions of
which I had meted out during my living space In this
world.
Do prevail over the nation
with the practice of nonviolence under your leadership and
ensure democracy takes roots in the country by repealing
AFSPA from the whole areas inhabited by around 4 Crores of
people in the North East and elsewhere. Crores of rupees
which is allocated every year to eradicate insurgency can be
utilized productively for the uplift of the poor peasants
who feed the Crores of Indians by transforming all the armed
recruiting centres and barracks in every nook and corner of
our states into fertile paddy fields that once it were for
the farmers so that we can live a contented and peaceful
lives. Now, that you are not only the head of the State but
popularly elected leader by the whole of the nation for a
change, holding with the greatest power to command in your
hands. Like the enlightened emperor Asoka of KaiInga after
witnessing the huge devastation with heaves of deaths and
lamentations that prevailed over the whole land as a
consequence of historic battles, do rule your nation with
the weapon of Ahimsa so that you may reap only with peace
and love of your peoples to allay the fears of Anti-Modi
groups since the incidents of Godra in 2002 and transform
them into your beloved friends for a peaceful and vibrant
society.
At my personal level, your
historic victory over the recently concluded Parliamentary
election and your becoming the Prime Minster of India was
also envisioned in my dreams, nearly 5 years back in 2009,
when I saw you standing few metres apart right in front of
me with smile. I waited for this day to see you in that
position, today. It has been dream fulfilling for me
also.
In those very days, I knew
nothing about you except with a notion of a violent leader.
But, recently after hearing from the Newspapers of your
pronouncement as the Prime ministerial candidate of BJP in
the 16th Lok Sabha election, I did recollect myself of my
past dream of your standing before me and sharing the dreams
with my near and dear ones, here. So, we were hopeful and
prayed for your victory. Now, it turns out that the dreams
were a prophecy that came true in your assuming the highest
post of the State. I now count the days of my freedom with
the repeal of AFSPA, 1958 with your efforts in the
Parliament. So, do be the omnipotent leader who eventually
breaks my fast of 14 years by repealing the Act.
You’ll be blessed by the souls of those innocent
people who are no more and millions of young people like me
and my intimate friends who wish to lead protected life by
the law of the land with dignity or let us gain Nirvana from
this crazy world of power abuse of the mundane world and
liberate our souls from the body that enjoy No Right to Life
guaranteed under the Constitution of the country. The choice
is in your hands under your able leadership.
Thank you for your kind
attention.
With utmost regards
Irom Sharmila Chanu
Imphal Central Jail
Imphal Central Jail
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