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Push for parties' army act (AFSPA) stand
The Telegraph | Guwahati, March 26:
Political parties campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls have remained short of making any promise to have the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 repealed. This has prompted civil society groups to demand that all parties make their stand on the act clear before the elections.
Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, a national campaign in support of Irom Sharmila, fighting for withdrawal of the AFSPA from Manipur, has written to all political parties asking them to take up the issue and clarify their stand on withdrawal of the act from the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir.
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