At an exclusive meet-the-press in Mumbai, American black feminist activist and human rights defender, Angela Davis joined feminists in India spearheading a global women’s campaign appealing to the President of India to use his Constitutional powers and repeal the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). In doing so, she extends her solidarity to the struggles of women in India against the impunity granted to security forces under the AFSPA and the consequent widespread violation of rights in all areas where this law has been in force. In particular, Ms Davis salutes the historic struggle of Irom Chanu Sharmila whose 16 year long fast against the AFSPA helped foreground the issue both nationally, and internationally, saying
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is a colonial law first promulgated by the British rulers of India in 1942 to try and quell the freedom struggle. It has been continuously operative in several north-eastern states, including Sharmila’s home state of Manipur since 1958. It has also been invoked in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990. Under this law, armed forces and other security forces in “disturbed areas” have the license to shoot to kill anyone on suspicion; make arrests without warrants; enter and search any home or establishment; detain and question anyone. Armed forces personnel and security forces have complete immunity for actions taken under this law, and their prosecution requires prior sanction of the government, under Section 6 of the AFSPA. RTI information has disclosed that Sanction for prosecution of armed forces even for egregious human rights violation has never been granted. Nor is the government’s decision on declaring an area “disturbed” subject to judicial review.
Irom Sharmila grew up in Manipur under AFSPA. Like most young women she wanted to live her life pursuing her dreams: writing poetry, finding meaningful work and perhaps looking after her grandmother and mother, finding companionship and contributing to her community in other ways. But that was not to be. By 2000, she was working in a human rights organisation and as an interpreter at a public tribunal on human rights violations she heard many testimonies of disappearances, fake encounters and sexual violence. She was deeply disturbed by these accounts. Then on 2 November 2000, ten unarmed people waiting for a bus in Malom, a small town in Manipur, were gunned down by a paramilitary patrol on the rampage after a bomb blast near their camp earlier that day. The victims – who included a 60 year old woman and three teenagers – had nothing to do with the blast: they were ordinary citizens going about their daily lives. An explosion of shock and outrage engulfed Manipur. Sharmila, a young poet and activist who describes herself as “an ordinary woman”, acted with extraordinary personal and political courage: she resolved not to eat or drink until AFSPA was struck down. During the 16 years that followed the Malom incident and the hunger strike she undertook the state force-fed her and kept her alive but also incarcerated her in a hospital ward that permitted no one to visit her. After repeated attempts to move the government authorities and failing to have her voice heard, on 9 August 2016, Sharmila decided to change her strategy and find other ways to keep the struggle against the AFSPA going.
In the years that have passed since the Malom massacre, there have been thousands of similar atrocities. In Manipur alone, 8,000 civilians have been killed since 1980, many of them shot in cold blood in full public view for “acting suspicious” or “looking like a militant”. Human rights groups have documented hundreds of cases of abduction and torture of young men, violent deaths in custody and execution-style shootings of captured militants in staged encounters. The chronicle of violence against women under AFSPA includes the mass rapes of more than 100 women in Kunan Poshpora, Kashmir in 1991; the abduction, rape, torture and murder of Thangjam Manorama by a search party of soldiers in Manipur in 2004; the abduction, rape and murder of two young women in Shopian, Kashmir in 2004; the sexual assaults and rapes of women in Karbi Anglong, Assam in 2015. Not a single soldier has been brought to book for any of these incidents.
Opposition to AFSPA is growing. It has been criticised as anti-people and anti-democratic by human rights groups and civil society organisations inside and outside the country. It has been repeatedly challenged in the Supreme Court. The legislature in Kashmir has voted against it. In the north eastern state of Tripura, the council of ministers has decided that it is unnecessary and should be withdrawn. Indeed, AFSPA has proved to be an ineffective weapon against separatism and militancy, turning civilian populations against the government and undermining the search for political solutions.
Even among citizens, Sharmila is not the only one who has consistently demonstrated her resistance to the AFSPA: there is a long history of struggle against the AFSPA by ordinary people in all the areas where the Act has been imposed. Women directly affected by the impunity spawned by this “lawless law” that has been on the statute books since 1958 have come on to the streets repeatedly to demand justice for the women and girls who have been assaulted, raped and murdered in custody wherever AFSPA has been in force. In 2004, a group of Meira Paibis the famous torch-bearing mothers of Manipur, stripped naked and stood in front of the then army headquarters at Kangla Fort, holding a banner saying “Indian Army, Rape Us”, turning the very bodies of women that are targeted, into a powerful symbol of protest. Yet the State remained unmoved.
In a historic judgement on 8 July 2016 regarding 1528 encounter deaths in Manipur that has been under AFSPA for about 60 years, the Supreme Court of India declared ‘indefinite AFSPA’ a mockery of democratic processes. Over the years, the Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee; Christof Heynes, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Causes and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights Defenders; the UN CEDAW Committee; former NHRC member, Satyabrata Pal; the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR); global human rights bodies and civil society organisations have consistently called for a repeal of AFSPA and an end to immunity for crimes committed under its shadow.
Speaking at an event in Delhi soon after she came out of her forced isolation a few months ago, Sharmila reflected on her struggle and shared her despair at the refusal of successive governments to recognise her fast as a political act of satyagraha. She said that her decision to end her fast has freed her from the forced isolation she has been subjected to all these years, and allowed her to take her protest into the larger public arena and link her struggle with that of others. She reiterated her simple question: How can a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy continue to implement a law that violates every tenet of democracy?
Sharmila said that she would like to put this question directly to the President of India. She has sought an appointment with the President, to hand over the campaign appeal and signatures in support, and urge him to act to repeal AFSPA.
In supporting and widening the campaign against the AFSPA women’s rights activists, eminent feminist historian Uma Chakravarti has said “No one should be above the law, no acts of the state should be above judicial scrutinyand no woman in any part of the country should be denied the right to justice which the Constitution of India grants to her. That’s why we stand for the repeal of AFSPA and are taking the global women’s campaign to the President.” As Vrinda Grover, human rights lawyer and feminist, has asserted, “The prolonged application of AFSPA has not only institutionalized militarism and a climate of impunity but has also alienated the public and fuelled a cycle of violence, increasing insurgency rather than dampening it.”
WOMEN OF THE WORLD STAND WITH SHARMILA TO REPEAL AFSPA
Prominent international feminists who have endorsed the campaign include Angela Davis, black feminist activist and human rights campaigner and who is here today to join feminists in India spearheading the campaign and to draw global attention to the struggle of women here for an end to AFSPA; Charlotte Bunch, women’s rights advocate; Prof Barbara Harriss-White and Prof Andrea Cornwall, respected feminist academics and South Asia experts; Kumari Jayawardena, pioneering feminist activist and campaigner for human rights; Liepollo Lebohang Pheko, feminist economist and women’s rights advocate; Khushi Kabir of Naripokkho and Hameeda Hossain, Bangladesh, Sumathy Sivamohan, Sri Lanka and Sabiha Sumar, Afghanistan, stalwarts of South Asian women’s movements, and Eve Ensler, playwright, performer and founder of the 1 Billion Rising Campaign.
The campaign has also been endorsed by leading Indian feminist activists and human rights defenders including Parveena Ahangar, founderof the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons; Rashidabi of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti; Aruna Roy ofMazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, the Right to Information Campaign and the Right to Food Campaign, Annie Raja of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) and Brinda Karat of the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Syeda Hameed, formerly of the Planning Commission; Lalita Ramdas from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace; Advocates Indira Jaising and Vrinda Grover, feminist lawyers and human rights defenders; Ruth Manorama, Prof Vimal Thorat, Lata PM and Rajni Tilak, prominent Dalit feminist activists; artist Neelima Sheikh and musician Vidya Rao; journalists Pamela Philipose and Geeta Seshu along with hundreds of others – academicians, students, media persons, lawyers, development professionals and activists determined to stand up and assert our Constitutional rights to life and liberty that are consistently violated under the AFSPA!
Together, we urge the President of India to respond to this international call for justice, peace and accountability.
WOMEN OF THE WORLD RAISE THEIR VOICE AGAINST AFSPA; STAND WITH THE STRUGGLE OF IROM SHARMILA
ONLINE SIGNATORIES
The petition to the President of India demanding immediate repeal of AFSPA is signed by leading Indian feminists including Uma Chakravarti, Mary John, Suneetha Dhar, Monisha Behal, Kamla Bhasin, Roshmi Goswami, Nivedita Menon, Ayesha Kidwai, Gabriele Dietrich, Abha Bhaiya, Ritu Menon, J Devika, Kalyani Menon-Sen, Kalpana Mehta and others; organisations and networks such as All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, All India Students Association (AISA) and Labia – An LBT Collective; leading academicians such as Romila Thapar and Jayati Ghosh; human rights defenders like Parveena Ahangar of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP); Syeda Hameed, formerly of the Planning Commission; Maimoona Sheikh and Rashida Bee of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Adhikar Samiti; Advocates Indira Jaising and Vrinda Grover, feminist lawyers and human rights defenders; Ruth Manorama, Prof Vimal Thorat, and Rajni Tilak, prominent Dalit feminist activists and leading academicians; Shabnam Hashmi of Anhad (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy), artists Neelima Sheikh, Maya Rao, Malika Sarabhai and Vidya Rao; Aruna Roy of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, the Right to Information Campaign and the Right to Food Campaign; Lalita Ramdas from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace; journalists Pamela Philipose, Laxmi Murthy and Geeta Seshu.
Prominent international feminists who have endorsed the campaign include Angela Davis, black feminist activist and human rights campaigner; Eve Ensler, American playwright, performer and activist, Charlotte Bunch, women’s rights advocate; Prof Barbara Harriss-White and Prof Andrea Cornwall, respected feminist academics and South Asia experts; Kumari Jayawardena, pioneering feminist activist and campaigner for human rights; Liepollo Lebohang Pheko, feminist economist and women’s rights advocate from South Africa; Khushi Kabir of Naripokkho and Hameeda Hossain, Bangladesh, Sumathy Sivamohan, Sri Lanka and Sabiha Sumar, Afghanistan and many more.
OFFLINE CAMPAIGN
Hundreds of academicians, students, media persons, lawyers, development professionals and activists and concerned citizens have sent signed postcards and posters from West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and other states all across India to the President to stand up and assert our Constitutional rights to life and liberty that are consistently violated under the AFSPA.
Well over fifteen hundred voices that speak out loud and clear against AFSPA.
Only one question remains: will the President of India listen?
INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANISATIONAL VOICES FROM INDIA | SOUTH ASIAN VOICES | GLOBAL VOICES |
1. UMA CHAKRAVARTI 2. KALYANI MENON-SEN 3. MARY E JOHN 4. BABLOO LOITONGBAM 5. PARVEENA AHANGAR (APDP, KASHMIR) 6. ROMILA THAPAR 7. SAHELI WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTRE 8. SUNEETA DHAR 9. DEEPTI MEHROTRA 10. MALIKA SARABHAI 11. NANDINI SUNDAR 12. BRINDA KARAT/AIDWA 13. KAVITA KRISHNAN, AISA 14. KAMLA BHASIN 15. RUTH MANORAMA 16. VRINDA GROVER 17. FARAH NAQVI 18. SADHNA ARYA 19. KAVITA SRIVASTAVA 20. AJITA 21. ABHA BHAIYA 22. LABIA, QUEER COLLECTIVE 23. LALITA RAMDAS 24. LATA PM 25. MAIMOONA MULLAH 26. ARUNA ROY 27. MEENA SESHU 28. SHOHINI GHOSH 29. AYESHA KIDWAI 30. SUDHA BHARADWAJ 31. BITTU KARTHIK KONDAIAH 32. CHAYANIKA SHAH 33. NIVEDITA MENON 34. SYEDA HAMEED 35. DEVANGANA KALITA 36. VANI SUBRAMANIAN 37. VIDYA RAO 38. DIPTA BHOG, NIRANTAR 39. DUNU ROY 40. PRATIKSHA BAXI 41. VIMAL THORAT 42. RAJNI TILAK 43. PAMELA PHILLIPOSE 44. SAHIYAR 45. NAZARIYA 46. NANDINI RAO 47. NALINI NAYAK 48. VIMOCHANA 49. GABRIELE DIETRICH 50. GAURI CHOUDHURY 51. RITU DEWAN 52. HASINA KHAN 53. ILINA SEN 54. INDIRA JAISING 55. ANNIE RAJA 56. MAYA RAO 57. MAYA SHARMA 58. SHABNAM HASHMI | 1. AMRITA CHHACHHI, THE HAGUE2. KUMUDINI SAMUEL, SRI LANKA 3. SIMA SAMAR, AFGHANISTAN 4. HAMEEDA HOSSAIN, BANGLADESH 5. KHUSHI KABIR, BANGLADESH 6. SARALA EMMANUEL, SRI LANKA 7. CHITRA GANESH, USA 8. ANIA LOOMBA, US 1. ARUNA RAO, US 9. GAYATRI MENON, USA 10. JINEE LOKANEETA, USA 11. MEENA ALEXANDER, USA 12. RITTY LUKOSE, USA 13. RUPAL OZA, USA 14. SHEFALI CHANDRA, USA 15. SHIRIN RAI, UK 16. SITRALEGA MAUNAGURU, SRI LANKA 17. SVATI SHAH, USA 18. SARA HOSSAIN 19. KUMARI JAYAWARDENA 20. MALATHI DE ALWISS 21. RUBINA SAIGOL 22. SUMATHY SIVAMOHAN 23. RENU RAJBHANDARI 24. CHULANI KODARA 25. BEENA SARWAR 26. NIKITA NAIDU, USA
| 2. ANGELA DAVIS, US 3. AIDA ABURAD, JORDAN 4. ALICE TISBULSKY, CANADA 5. EVE ENSLER, USA 6. ANDREA CORNWALL, UK 7. ANDRES NAIME, MEXICO 8. ARIANE BRUNET 9. ASTER ZAOUDE, ETHIOPIA 10. BARBARA HARRIS-WHITE, UK 11. BRUNA FATICHE PAVANI 12. CATHERINE KISALAM 13. CATHERINE NEWTON 14. CATHY ALBISA 15. CHARLOTTE BUNCH, USA 16. CHI HUI-JUNG, TAIWAN 17. CHRISTINE S DESCHRYVER, CONGO 18. COLANI HLATJWAKO, SWAZILAND 19. COLLEEN CAROL, USA 20. DZENETA ANGOVIC 21. ESTELLA OCONU CORDUBA 22. EVA GILLIS 23. FAIHA ABULHADI, JORDAN 24. FAWZIA KHONDKAR, BANGLADESH 25. HAIDAMTTEN LEME 26. JESSICA TOMLIN 27. JILL ALISSON 28. JOANNA KERR 29. JOANNE SANDLER 30. KATHERINE MCFATE 31. KISHWAR SULTANA 32. LASSE ANDERSON 33. LEPA MILADJENOVIC, SERBIA 34. LIEPOLLO LEBOHANG PHEKO, SAFRICA 35. LISA GOES, USA 36. LIZ LITTLE 37. LORI CHEN, TAIWAN 38. LUONA DOMINIQUES 39. MARGO OKAZAWA-REY, USA 40. MARSHA LOPEZ CALDERON, GUATEMALA 41. MARTIN PRICE 42. MARY JANE REAL, USA 43. MARY SARI 44. MARYA MEYER 45. MICHELE WILLIAMS 46. MIKE VIERA 47. NICOLETTA BILLI, ITALY 48. NYASHA SENGAYI, ZIMBABWE 49. PROF ANDREA CORNWALL, UK 50. PROF MARGO OKAZAWA REY, USA 51. RADA BORIC, CROATIA 52. REBECCA WHITTINGTON, USA 53. REGULA MODLICH, CANADA 54. RUTH GABY VERMOT, SWITZERLAND 55. SAMBIDA RAJBHANDARI, NEPAL 56. SUSAN ABULHAWA, PALESTINE&USA 57. SUSAN GFELLER, USA 58. SUSAN SWAN 59. TANIA PRINCIPE, CANADA 60. TASAFFY HUSSAIN 61. TSIGIE HAILE, ETHIOPIA 62. YUEN MEI SO, TAIWAN
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| 363. K. KHANNA 364. K. KRISHNAVENI 365. K. P. THAKAR 366. K. SAJAYA 367. KAJRI JAIN 368. KALIDAS 369. KALPANA SHARMA 370. KALYANI A 371. KALYANI MATHUR 372. KALYANI MEENA 373. KAMAL 374. KAMINI TANKHA 375. KAMLA PANDEY 376. KANADE AMRUTA 377. KANAKLATA 378. KANCHAM KANADE 379. KANCHAN 380. KANIKA SINGH 381. KARABI 382. KARUNA DIETRICH WIELENGA 383. KASHYAP 384. KAUSAR KHAN 385. KAUSHIK GUPTA 386. KAVITA MISHRA 387. KAVITA PUNJABI 388. KAWARE PRATIK 389. KEIBAKNGANBU 390. KETAKI 391. KEYOR 392. KHUSBOO RAI 393. KHUSHBOO 394. KIRAN AGAWANE 395. KIRAN DESHMUKH 396. KIRAN MOGHE 397. KIRTI MISHRA 398. KONKANA SAIKIA 399. KOTAWALE POOJA 400. KOYAL VERMA 401. KRISHNA GUPTA 402. KRISHNA MENON, AUD 403. KRISHNA PRATAP SINGH 404. KRISHNA S. 405. KRITI SHARMA 406. KRITIKA CHOPRA 407. KRITIKA DINESH 408. KRITIKA PANDEY 409. KULBIR SINGH 410. KULDIP 411. KUMAR SHUBHAMOORTHY 412. KUMAR SUSHILA 413. KUMKUM ROY 414. KURILENUO 415. KURSHID ALAM 416. KUSH 417. KUSUM KUSHAWA 418. L. MEKOLAS 419. LATA 420. LATA CHANCHANI 421. LAVANYA MEHRA 422. LAXMI MURTHY 423. LEENA S SONAWANE 424. LEKHA BHAGAT 425. LOGNA BEZBARUAH 426. LOKESH 427. LOLBOY DOUGEL 428. LOPA PIEBI KOJUM 429. LORNHA 430. LUBNA SHAHEEN 431. M MALHOTRA 432. M PATEL 433. M RAJESHWARI 434. M. BANDHOPADHYAYA 435. M. S. PANDEY 436. M.V ANANDHA 437. MADHAVI RAHIRKAR 438. MADHU 439. MADHU BHUSHAN 440. MADHU MEHRA 441. MADHU SAHNI 442. MADHUKAR PAKALE 443. MADHUMITA DASGUPTA 444. MADHURA JOSHI 445. MADHURA RAWAT 446. MAITRAYEE MUKHOPADHYAY 447. MALAVIKA THIRUKODE 448. MALIKA VIRDI 449. MALOBIKA 450. MAMTA 451. MAMTA PARIHAR 452. MANAK MATIYANI 453. MANASHI MISRA 454. MANASI PINGLE 455. MANG MADHUSHREE 456. MANISHA GUPTE 457. MANJU 458. MANJU MENON 459. MANJULA 460. MANOHAR ELAVARTHI 461. MANSARA PV 462. MANSHI ASHER 463. MARIO DE PENHA 464. MATHANGI KRISHNAMURTHY 465. MAYANK SINGH 466. MEENA GOPAL 467. MEENAKSHI 468. MEENAKSHI GHULGHULE 469. MEENAKSHI KAPOOR 470. MEENAKSHI MALHOTRA 471. MEENAL SINGH 472. MEENU PANDEY 473. MEERA SANGAMITRA 474. MEERA VISWANATHAN 475. MEGHANA 476. MEGHNA JOSHI 477. MEGHRAJ M JOSHI 478. MERCY CORNELIUS 479. MERCY KAPPEN 480. MERI BARUA 481. MESHBA GUDDU 482. MIBON TAOKH 483. MILDRET 484. MITA DESHPANDE 485. MITUL VERMA 486. MOHAMMAD ANSARI 487. MOHD. KHALID 488. MOHD. OWAIS 489. MOHD. SHAQUIB 490. MOHOMMAD SHOIAB 491. MONA SHERPA 492. MONIKA 493. MONIQUE WILSON 494. MONISHA BEHAL 495. MUGDHA P HEDAU 496. MUKTASREE CHAKMA SATHI 497. MUKUL MANGLIK 498. MUKULIKA 499. MURDE YOGESH 500. MUSHARRAF ALAM 501. MUSKAAN 502. N. EOHIKA 503. NAGMANI RAO 504. NALINI VISWANATHAN 505. NAMITA RAI 506. NAMRATA DHUMAL 507. NANDITA DAS 508. NANDITA GANDHI 509. NANDITA SHAH 510. NASTASIA PAUL GERA 511. NATALI FERNANDEZ 512. NATASHA AHUJA 513. NATASHA NARWAL 514. NATASHA SHARMA 515. NAVDEEP KAUR 516. NAVELI GUPTA 517. NAVJEET 518. NAVSHARAN SINGH 519. NAZNEEN SHIFA 520. NEELIMA SHEIKH 521. NEERAJ MALLIK 522. NEERU SHRUTI 523. NEETIKA V 524. NEHA SOOD 525. NIDHI AGARWAL 526. NIKHIL AMBEKAR 527. NIKHIL DESHPANDE 528. NIKHIL KATHWAS 529. NIKHILA ANOTH 530. NIKHITA AGARWAL 531. NILANJANA PAUL 532. NILESH 533. NIMISHA AGARWAL 534. NIRMALA BANNERJEE 535. NIRMALA DEVI 536. NIRU LAL 537. NIRUPAMA V 538. NISHA RANIMANAK 539. NITI SAXENA 540. NITIN DHAKTODE 541. NITIN ZUDE 542. NITINLATA WAMAN 543. NIYATHI R KRISHNA 544. NIZARA HAZARIKA 545. NOBOKISHORE SINGH 546. NOOKA 547. NOORJAHAN SAFIA 548. NUPUR JAIN 549. OJAS S V 550. OM PRAKASH 551. OSHEEN RAO 552. P. RAJAGOPAL 553. P. SALIPAT 554. PADMA SINGH 555. PADMA VELASKAR 556. PALLAVI GILL 557. PALLAVI HARSHE 558. PALLAVI PATEL 559. PAPORI KONWAR 560. PARAG KAKODE 561. PAREEK TEJASWI 562. PARIJAT DESAI 563. PARIJATA BHANDUNG 564. PARUL MALIK 565. P ARUNIMA 566. PARWEEN 567. PAULA CHAKRAVARTTY 568. PAUSHALI BASAK 569. PAWAN SURYAWANSHI 570. PIRADAYINI 571. PIYUSH PATNI 572. PONNI ARASU 573. POOJA 574. POOJA KUMARI 575. POONAM KATHURIA 576. POORNAPRIYA 577. POORNIMA CHIKARMANE 578. POORNIMA KUMAR 579. POORVA PANDEY 580. POORVA RAJARAM 581. PRAAVITA K. 582. PRABHA KHOSLA 583. PRACHI 584. PRACHI KHARI 585. PRAGYA KAKADE 586. PRAJAKTA M PHANSE 587. PRALAYA NEGRADE 588. PRANATI THORAT 589. PRASANTHI 590. PRASHASTI ASHOK 591. PRASHASTIKA 592. PRATIBHA MISHRA 593. PRATISHTHA 594. PRAVIN 595. PREETI OZA 596. PREETI VENAKATRAMAN 597. PREMA REVATHI 598. PRERNA GUPTA 599. PRITA JHA 600. PRITHVIRAJ SHINDE 601. PRIYA SEN 602. PRIYANKA SHARMA 603. PRIYANKA VERMA 604. PROBIR SENGUPTA 605. PUNAM MEHRA 606. PUSHPA ACHANTA 607. PUSHPA BAI 608. R. ABIDA BEGUM 609. R. SUDANSH 610. R.S. DIXIT 611. RAAHI 612. RABIYA SHAHID 613. RACHNA CHAUDHURI 614. RAHUL 615. RAHUL ROY 616. RAJASHRI MAJUMDAR 617. RAJENDRA B. POKALE 618. RAJNI YADAV 619. RAJSHRI M. 620. RAKESH KUMAR 621. RAKHI SEHGAL 622. RAKSHA KUMAR 623. RAMANI 624. RAMNARATAN 625. RANA BEHAL 626. RANJANA SHANKAR 627. RANJANA SRIVASTAVA 628. RANJEETA 629. RASEELA DEVI 630. RATHOD ROSHAN ASHOK 631. RATNA APPNENDER 632. REENA 633. REENA MOHAN 634. REKHA 635. RENA HUSAIN 636. RENU 637. RENU KHANNA 638. RENUKA SAROHA 639. RESHMA VOHRA 640. RESHMI 641. RICHA JAIRAJ 642. RICHA MINOCHA 643. RICHA SR 644. RINA ROY 645. RINI SINGH 646. RISHIT NEOGI 647. RITA MANCHANDA 648. RITA THAPA 649. RITA WANKHEDE 650. RITU 651. RIZWAN 652. ROHINI HENSMAN 653. ROHIT GUPTA 654. ROMA CHATTERJEE 655. ROMESH KUMAR SINGH 656. ROOPAK 657. ROSE KERKETTA 658. ROSHAN DAWALE 659. ROSHMI CHATTOPADHYAY 660. ROSHMI GOSWAMI 661. RUCHA R LAMBATE
| 662. RUKMINI BANNERJEE 663. RUKMINI PANDA 664. RUKMINI SEN 665. RUNU CHAKRABORTY 666. RUQAIYYA KHAN 667. RUSHIKESH GANGANE 668. RUTH ZOTHANPULI 669. S. BHAGAT 670. S. KRISHAN 671. S. NIGAM 672. S. RIAZI 673. SAADIA HAQ 674. SABA DEWAN 675. SABAH SIDDIQUI 676. SABEENA GADIHOKE 677. SABINA KIDWAI 678. SACHIN SOURDAH 679. SADAN KUMAR 680. SADHNA SAXENA 681. SAGAR JAISWAL 682. SAGARI R RAMDAS 683. SAGNIK BANERJEE 684. SAHANA GHOSH 685. SAHBA HUSSAIN 686. SAKSHI SAXENA 687. SAMAH RAFIQ 688. SAMAN JASYA 689. SAMIT JAGTAP 690. SAMRAT SHARMA 691. SAMTI SAIGATHA 692. SANCHUDU GHOSH 693. SANDEEP 694. SANDEEP S 695. SANDEEPAN DAS 696. SANDHYA GAWALI 697. SANDHYA PHADKE 698. SANGITA MANOGI 699. SANGITA THAKUR 700. SANIKA GODSE 701. SANJANA MALHOTRA 702. SANJEEV KUMAR 703. SANTA KURAI 704. SANTOSH J. 705. SAPTARISHI 706. SARASWATHI 707. SAROJINI 708. SAROJINI N. 709. SARVESH 710. SARYU VATAL 711. SASHI BHUSHAN SINGH 712. SASWATI GHOSH 713. SASWATI SENGUPTA 714. SATISH DESHPANDE 715. SATNAM 716. SATNAM KAUR 717. SATYADEV 718. SAUMYA 719. SAURATH 720. SAVIKA ABBAS NAQVI 721. SAVITA 722. SAVITA SHARMA 723. SAWASE MONALI 724. SAYAL KULKARNI 725. SAYALI SHANKAR 726. SEEMA BAQUER 727. SEEMA KAZI 728. SEEMA PARDESI 729. SEEMA SHAH 730. SEJAL DAVE 731. SEMINA SARMA 732. SENO TSUHAH 733. SENTHIL BABU 734. SHABAKSHI GAWADE 735. SHABANA 736. SHABANA DILER 737. SHAEL NORRIS 738. SHAHUL NATH 739. SHAKTI N 740. SHAKUN M DOUNDIYAKHED 741. SHALIGH 742. SHALS MAHAJAN 743. SHAMBHAVI VIKRAM 744. SHAMPA 745. SHANTA BAI 746. SHANTANU 747. SHANTI 748. SHANTI JUNANIYA 749. SHARAD 750. SHARANYA NAIK 751. SHARMILA PURKAYASTHA 752. SHAUNLEE PATRANABIS 753. SHEETAL 754. SHEFALI 755. SHEFALI CHANDRA 756. SHEIKH SOHEB A. 757. SHIKHA S BHATTACHARJEE 758. SHINEY V 759. SHIPRA NIGAM 760. SHIREEN HUQ 761. SHIREEN KIRAN 762. SHIVA SHARMA 763. SHIVANI MEENA 764. SHIVANI SATIJA 765. SHOBA 766. SHOBHA RAGHAVAN 767. SHOHINI 768. SHONALI BOSE 769. SHRADDHA CHICKERUR 770. SHRADDHA CHIGATERI 771. SHRADDHA KULKARNI 772. SHRADDHA RATON 773. SHRESHTA 774. SHRESHTI 775. SHRESTHA DAS 776. SHREYA 777. SHREYA BHATTACHARYA 778. SHREYA ILA ANSUYA 779. SHRUTI BATRA 780. SHRUTI MISHRA 781. SHRUTI TAMBE 782. SHUBHAM 783. SHUBHAM SEN 784. SHUBHANGI SINGH 785. SHUBHRA NAGALIA 786. SHWETA CHAKRABORTY 787. SHWETA GOSWAMI 788. SHWETA SINGH 789. SHYAM VIR 790. SHYAMA 791. SIBI ARASU 792. SIMRAN 793. SIMRAN KASHYAP 794. SMITA SHARMA 795. SNEHA BANERJEE 796. SNEHA GANGULY 797. SNEHA GOLE 798. SNEHAL SHINGAVI 799. SOHINI SHOAIB 800. SOMA KP 801. SOMA SARKAR 802. SONALI UDAYBABU 803. SOUMYA LAMBA 804. SOUVIK EKAMEBADVITIYAM 805. SREEKALA 806. SRIJIT MENDE 807. SRINATH 808. STELIN PAUL 809. SUBHASHINI SHRIYA 810. SUBODH TAGADE 811. SUCHANA RENU 812. SUDANSHU SHEKHAR 813. SUDARSHAN SHANKAR 814. SUDEETI 815. SUDHA N. 816. SUDHA RAGHUVANSHI 817. SUDHIR CHANDRA 818. SUGAIBIN 819. SUKRITA 820. SUKRUTA 821. SUMAN SHARMA 822. SUNANDITA BANERJEE 823. SUNDARI 824. SUNIL 825. SUNITA 826. SUNITA PAWAR 827. 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When so many national and international activists, women, academicians and common people are appealing, the president, as the head of a largest democracy, should listen to the desires of the people. Hopefully, the president considers the welfare of humanity and approaches positively