: Manipur: Congress says it would remove AFSPA from state if voted to power #IndiaNEWS The Manipur unit of the Congress on Saturday said that it would remove the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or

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Manipur: Congress says it would remove AFSPA from state if voted to power #IndiaNEWS
The Manipur unit of the Congress on Saturday said that it would remove the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA, from the state if it was elected to power in the 2022 Assembly elections.The AFSPA gives the military sweeping powers to search and arrest, to open fire if it is deemed necessary for “the maintenance of public order�, and to do so with a degree of immunity from prosecution.The Act is currently in force in Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and parts of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. It was lifted from Meghalaya in April 2018.At a press briefing on Saturday, working president of the party’s state unit Keisham Meghachandra mentioned that when the Congress was in power, it had removed the law from seven Assembly constituencies, said Congress leader and party’s spokesperson for Manpur Ningombam Bupenda Meitei.Meghachandra also said the Congress demands that Chief Minister N Biren Singh press Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the law in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, according to Meitei. The party’s working president also asked the Manipur Cabinet to remove the Act from the entire state immediately.He added that the state government has the power to repeal the “disturbed area� status.The government should repeal the Disturbed Area Status...Read more

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