New Delhi, July 23 -- Activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday said he was ready to break his 25-day-long hunger strike if the government gave him assurances on key demands, including no legal action against agitators who mounted a massive protest that rocked Delhi earlier this week.

Wangchuk released a video from his hospital bed at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, hours after he wrote an open letter to Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh, who met him for 45 minutes around midnight on Tuesday. Separately, at least 65 opposition MPs wrote to the activist, requesting him to end his hunger strike. At least 15 MPs from six parties went to visit him in the hospital in the evening, but were stopped by police outside the premises.

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