New Delhi, Oct 08: Communist Party of India (CPI)
on Sunday demanded the UPA government to immediately scrap the
Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), 1958 in Manipur and
make public the Justice (Retd) Jeevan Reddy Committee Report
on it.
In a statement, CPI's national secretary D Raja said that
the party has been consistently demanding the repeal of the
act, which has once again come into focus in the wake of human
rights activist Chanu Irom Sharmila's ongoing six-year long
indefinite fast for repeal of the Act.
He regretted that though the Manipur unit of the CPI had
conducted several agitations and protest programmes for repeal
of the "draconian" and "repressive" act, successive
government's have failed to take any action on the demand.
Raja said, "The AFSPA has become a symbol of oppression
and an instrument of discrimination and high handedness".
The people of Manipur have been strongly resisting the
AFSPA and demanding the scrapping of the act and the CPI fully
supports the demand, the party said while asking the
government to make public the Jeevan Reddy Committee Report on
the issue.
Bureau Report
