Fw: People prefer to attend Team Anna's meeting over veteran political star campaigners

[senthil rajaram]

 
Prof.R.Senthil

--- On Fri, 2/10/12, India Against Corruption <in...@indiaagainstcorruption.org> wrote:

> From: India Against Corruption <in...@indiaagainstcorruption.org>
> Subject: People prefer to attend Team Anna's meeting over veteran political star campaigners
> To: senra...@yahoo.co.in
> Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 12:24 PM
> Don't Miss To Attend Team Anna's
> Meetings
>
> People prefer to attend Team Anna's meeting over veteran
> political
> star campaigners
>
> CHANDAULI (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 9: Despite having so many
> political
> rallies of all the big star campaigners of all political
> parties in a
> single day in each district, members of Team Anna have been
> attracting
> more audiences in their rally than any other rallies
> organized by any
> political party. Interestingly, today people of Chandauli
> preferred
> Team Anna's public meeting over Congress general secretary
> Rahul
> Gandhi. More than it not only people of Chandauli, but
> people from
> neighbouring district also came in good numbers to hear Team
> Anna.
>
> Manoj Singh (30), a resident of Ghazipur district of Uttar
> Pradesh,
> had missed to attend the public rally in his hometown
> organised by
> volunteers of India Against Corruption on Feb 5.
> Unbelievable but
> true, Manoj travelled almost 100 km to reach Chandauli, only
> to hear
> what members of Team Anna, who have been campaigning in
> poll-bound
> Uttar Pradesh for educating voters on the anti-graft Jan
> Lokpal bill,
> have to say before election."Basically, as a responsible
> citizen and a
> voter, I was confused to whom to support when not a single
> candidate
> has clean image. That's why I decided to avail this special
> opportunity." Manoj said.It was not only Manoj, but
> thousands of
> people from all walks of life -- students, women, youth and
> senior
> citizens-actively participated in the big public rally
> organized in a
> ground near Punjab National Bank at GT Road, Chandauli.
>
> Locals claimed that the crowd was very good specially when
> there was
> another event in the town being addressed by Congress
> general
> secretary Rahul Gandhi.
>
> Members of Team Anna emphasised about the benefits of strong
> Jan
> Lokpal Bill, lack of inner party democracy even in big
> political
> parties and participatory democracy besides how rampant
> corruption has
> prevented the development of the country. They reasserted
> their
> opinion that if strong Jan Lokpal will be there, whoever
> will come
> into power, law will take care of everything.
>
> When asked to Murari Verma, an MBA and resident of
> Chandauli, who was
> there to listen Team Anna, how he see this tour of Team Anna
> in Uttar
> Pradesh before the polls, he responded, "I agree with the
> idea of
> campaigning by non-political people with a view to spread
> awareness
> and education among the electorates living at remote
> places." Verma
> further added that eastern UP was seen as one of the most
> backward
> places not only in UP but in India as well. "And this
> situation is not
> just by chance but a political creation of all political
> parties so
> that cunning politicians could fool voters after every 5
> years. This
> attempt of Team Anna will definitely change the whole
> picture by next
> election," Verma said.After covering districts of Ghazipur,
> Balia,
> Basti, Gonda, Faizabad and Barabanki in the first phase,
> Team Anna has
> successfully completed its campaign in Azamgarh, Chanduali
> and
> Varanasi in the last three days as a part of its second
> phase. On
> Friday, members of Team Anna will address a rally in
> Allahabad. The
> third phase of campaigning will start from Rai Bareli on Feb
> 13 and
> will cover Kanauj & Farukhabad (Feb 14), Mainpuri &
> Etawah (Feb 15)
> and Lalitpur & Jhansi (Feb 16).
>