LUCKNOW: More than 2000 people including students and faculty members of India's noted management and engineering institutes such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) have formally endorsed the petition seeking support for Anna Hazare's fast against corruption by skipping one meal in the day so long as he continues with his fast.
The petition has been drafted and circulated by Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey, who has now also a faculty in IIT Gandhinagar. "This is an appeal that seeks to express solidarity with Anna Hazare who has decided to undertake a fast-unto-death unless the government agrees to enact a powerful law to rid India of the scourge of corruption by agreeing to skip one meal per day so long as Anna continues with his fast, to strengthen the movement that he and rest of the country have owned up," he said and appealed that people should sign up now for skipping a meal in a day as long as Anna continues to be on fast and encourage others to join.
Other IIT and IIM people who have signed the petition in support of this campaign include: Navdeep Mathur (IIM Ahmedabad) and Trilochan Sastry ( IIM Bangalore). Mukta Tripathy, Supreet Saini, Girish Singhal and , Manmohan Pandey from IIT Guwahati). Amitabh Mukherjee, Deepak Gupta, Arnab Bhattacharya and Krithika Venkatramani from IIT Kanpur. Yogesh K Agarwal and Rahul Pandey from IIM Lucknow. Prashast Srivastav and Rohitashva Singh Tomar, both students of IIM Ahmedabad. Abhishek Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash Nath Tripathi, Awneesh Upadhyay, Vijay Tripathi, E Naveen Kumar,G Nithin Kumar ,J Tejeswara Rao,Vivek Kshirsagar, K Omkar, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Shashank Pandey, Monica Yadav, Shyamal Kishore, Alpana Thorat, Hare Lal, Vibhav Katre, Anchit Gaurav, Shail Garg and Gaurav Garg (All sttudents of IIT Gandhinagar), Kalyan S (Alumnus of IIT Guwahati) and C Naveen (Student of IIT Hyderabad).
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