Il Sharmila
The Indian civil activist Il Sharmila, whose hunger strike lasted for more than 15 years, was defeated in the elections to the legislative Assembly of Manipur state, scoring just 90 votes. It is even less than that in the column “against all”, reports Hindustan Times.
Sharmila told the newspaper that she was not ashamed of his defeat, but in the future it will no longer participate in elections. “I want my party to survive,” said the activist, representing his own party “the Alliance of the folk revival, and justice.”
In one district with Sharmila stood by the incumbent chief Minister of the state, the representative of the Indian national Congress, Ibobi Okram Singh, he became the first, having to 18.6 thousand votes. Located next to the candidate of the “Bharatiya Janata party”, voted almost 8.2 thousand people. In the column “against all” mark of 143.
Sharmila stopped his hunger strike, which lasted 15 years and 9 months, in August 2016. In July of the same year she stated that she took this decision because I do not believe that her hunger strike can to change anything. To continue the fight the activist decided to run for the legislative Assembly of Manipur.