The Kovilam Smaraka Activist Indian National Award, a honour from Kovilam Trust, a forum of Kerala writers, to Iron Lady Irom Chanu Sharma, who has been fasting for nearly 12 years now in pursuance of public demand for repealing Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1950, has been politely returned back by her brother Irom Singhajit in protest against the Government of Manipur’s move to bar people from outside the state as well as the locals from meeting Sharmila Source Hueiyen News Service
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