 Welcome. We have today this fighter, this amazing woman of courage, of independence, a bold warrior as it were, Irom Sharmila. For an interview with the Citizen in the News Click, Irom, it's a pleasure to have met you and an honour really. And how are you feeling today, now that after so many years you've given up your, you know, fast? Become alive completely. You have? Become alive. Alive, really? And now what is going to be your next move? Since my deep man, my protest for the right cause is still here to be fulfilled. I am planning to change my strategy with democratic electoral politics to help out with my voice. So do you think, you know that you've taken up this armed forces special powers act issue so forcefully with your fast? But nobody listened, right? No government would listen. People listened. But the governments did not listen. I think governments, Adam's nature is also consequent effect on the mainstream media because I feel the national media are only interested in me and my breaking of fast. But they are not interested in knowing of the real situation of money board, of how they live, of how they pass. True. They are not interested in the real issues. That is so true. They should come to Manipur also and just meet with all these remote people. But the issue that you took up is something that is beyond Manipur. You took it up because of Manipur. But it's something which even all the way till Kashmir also people used to look at you. So do you think your role now will be bigger than just one state? In compass all affected states also in a democratic country and the union government should respect the sentiments of the people in a multi-cultural country without connecting the hearts of the people with the sense of the people's representation and so as to bring the real integrity of India and the real peace of India. Everything in every issue can be solved with mutual understanding and loving kindness without any tools of violence because our heart is malleable and is an example of civilization and the highest living entity of God's creation in the sense of civilization in everything else without any enforcement of contradictory rules or regulations. But when you started the fast so many years ago, did you think at all Iran that you would have to fast for such a long time? You were more optimistic I'm sure at that time, right? I just felt optimistic and hopeful to the will of God but I had seen nothing about my future by then. I just believe in the principle of non-violence as how India became independent with the tools of non-violence. But in my generation, those who are proud of the original being the source of non-violence the balance in my failure due to the negligence of non-violent principles is a sham to the world for the Indians to the world. So when you called off your fast, had you decided were you thinking of doing that for a while or was it a sudden decision? Not sudden after persevering for such long years after frustrations or such long year after year when I was released every year with the penalty of one year under the Indian Penal Code section 309, the concerned authority women and her of my real boys. So there was a lot of criticism from groups about you calling off the fast. I mean many of us thought that that was not a fair criticism because you had led this whole struggle against Afspar almost single-handedly and it was your right to take a decision. So how would you respond to those people who are criticizing you for this? They did just misunderstand my group of fasts but in their inner feeling they remain respecting me and their emotion for me still remain unseen I think. For example after refusing me to accept or giving my shelter in a locality the same locality came to realize what they had done to me. What are you going to do, what's like if today you want to say what are you going to do the next step? By forming a new party with a new symbol based on our people's sentiments, based on its suffering, everything based on our reason with the convention of inclusiveness will form a new party in a political party in a short period and the next election is very near from now and I am hopeful. Will you confine the party to Manipur or will you look at a general party cutting across some of the states in the northeast? I don't want to confine into Manipur's problems only because all the knowledge states are similarly suffering from discrimination, racial attacks and other backwardness due to the system of politics which is absolutely based on the national policies without regarding the sentiments of the people there in the northeast, without connecting hearts, without regarding what they do, what they want. So this is, you know, a lot of the parties in the northeast and some of the states also in Manipur like to ally with one of the so called national parties which is Congress, BJP or something, you are going to remain independent I guess. No, we will form a new party. New party and you will not ally with any of the Delhi parties. Recently, on an invitation from the Amadhani party, I met with the chief minister only because he invited me and I felt as he had been struggling for long, for anti-corruption movement as I think a symbol of people's power in politics. I felt I need counselling, how did they win, how can we connect with people like that. So I'm going to end with a personal question. When are you getting married? Right now I can say, I determined not to get married until and unless my goal is achieved. And the goal is? Change in the order or revocation, abrogation of Afspar. Which would you say is the goal now? My main focus is on repealing that very Afspar and other relevant goals for the Sego, justice, love and understanding, there is a collective goal. And I want the whole world not to politicize my love life. And I want the people of Manipur also to see me as a humanity, not just a symbol of resistance. Thank you for watching. News click and the citizen will be back again with the next interview very soon. Thank you.