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I got nothing out of fasting for 16 years. I want to contest election and become chief minister because I need power for a big change in society and system.

— Irom Sharmila Chanu

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The day AFSPA is repealed I will eat rice from my mother's hand.

I am identified as an embodiment of saints. Since the beginning of my fast, there is no change in the mindset of the people. They remain content in making me a symbol of resistance. They wanted me to be a martyr.

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