Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has recently announced

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Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has recently announced to end 16-year old hunger strike belongs to which State ?

1. Mizoram
2. Manipur
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Maharashtra

Correct Option: B

Irom Chanu Sharmila is a civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from Manipur. On 2 November, 2000, she began a hunger strike which she ended on 9 August 2016, after 16 years of fasting. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called “the world’s longest hunger striker.”