Posters in Delhi depicts Irom Sharmila as dangerous
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Laishram Anilkumar

New Delhi, September 25 2011: While people of Manipur and the whole North East is calling for the repeal of AFSPA and showing solidarity to Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been fasting for the past 11 years demanding the repeal of AFSPA, numbers of posters of Sharmila depicting person dangerous to the nation have appeared in South Delhi.

It may be mentioned that Sharmila has got some attention from the national media on the sideline of Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption.

While many are calling for mass support for Sharmila the posters of Sharmila widely circulated in South Delhi clearly shows how the people of the mainland India looks towards the North Eastern states and its people.

Pictures of Sharmila along with danger mark can be seen in various public places in the area which looks like a handiwork of some people who want to make a bad impression of Sharmila to the people of the mainland India.

Those people have put the block pictures of Sharmila on side by side with jungilist movement picture so that it appear like a jungli movement in the mindset of public.

These pictures are being viewed by thousands of commuter in Delhi everyday.

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