Statewide protests continued on the second day of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare’s indefinite fast in Tihar jail. Team Anna's supporters swelled manifold on Wednesday with lawyers joining in the anti-corruption movement and an increasing number of acti-vists, students, professionals and NGOs converging on Indira Park where a relay hunger strike is in progress.
Statewide protests continued on the second day of anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare’s indefinite fast in Tihar jail. Team Anna's supporters swelled manifold on Wednesday with lawyers joining in the anti-corruption movement and an increasing number of acti-vists, students, professionals and NGOs converging on Indira Park where a relay hunger strike is in progress.
Lawyers in the Nampally criminal court in Hyderabad, and in courts in Ranga Reddy, Karimnagar and Mahbubnagar districts struck work and CPM workers held a rally in the city demanding a strong Lokpal Bill. Rallies, burning of effigies, relay fasts, road blockades and human chains were organised across the state to express solidarity with Anna Hazare who was arrested on Tuesday and prevented from beginning an indefinite fast to protest at the government’s refusal to adopt his version of the Lokpal Bill.
The Telugu Desam Party staged demonstrations at several places with former chief minister and the TDP president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu continuing a sit-in at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Secunderabad for the second day.
People gathered in the thousands at Necklace Road voluntarily responding to text messages and emails. Carrying candles, they demanded a “clean government, irrespective of political affiliation”.
In Adilabad, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, Telugu Desam and BJP staged dharnas and rasta rokos and in Utnoor students formed a human chain. In Vijayawada, the Powra Samaja Vedika continued its relay fast and the CPM took out a padayatra from Raghavaiah Park to Lenin Centre where a public meeting was held. The TD staged a dharna in Gollapudi and ABVP acti-vists condemned the central government for the arrest of Anna Hazare.
Protests were held in Prakasam district with political parties holding rallies.
Cardiologist Dr Sunil Kapoor, who had turned out to protest in Hyderabad, put it succinctly when he said: “Here are thousands of people who haven’t been mobilised by politicians in lieu of payment. They have come on their own and are asking for a real corruption-free India in a dignified, calm and civilised way. It may become the biggest people’s movement in the next one month.”
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