Expressing solidarity with relay hunger strike being organised by Poura Samaja Vedika, school and college students thronged the hunger camp near Rammohan Rao library on Monday. About 10 women from various walks of life participated in the hunger camp.
Students of Bhashyam Public School and Gowtham Degree College took out rallies separately in the city. The school children rallied from Benz Circle to Raghavaiah Park to express their solidarity. They raised slogans against black money and graft. Later, they along with Ghazal Srinivas submitted a memorandum to Sub Collector unde aegis of Poura Samaja Vedika.
Gowtham Degree College management, faculty and students took out a silent rally from college premises and passed through Bandar road, Sub Collector's Office, Museum Road, Courts buildings, Pushpa Hotel centre, P.B. Siddhartha College, Benz Circle and ended at Nara Chandrababu Naidu Colony.
The students said that they were supporting Anna Hazare's crusade against graft as they were also victims of graft. They wanted a strong Lokpal, and demanded the government to break the logjam.
The Vedika steering committee member T. Premnath, Mr. Srinivas and others said that they urged the sub collector to bring their ongoing agitation in support of social activist Anna Hazare to the notice of central government. The relay hunger strike was being organised for last seven days, and people from various walks of life were participating in the hunger camps. The central government should take a positive decision before the people laid siege to residences of members of parliament. Now, a stage has come that the government should either present Jan Lokpal Bill or step down, they said. The representatives of trade bodies would participate in the hunger camp on Tuesday.
Pledges support
Service Health Organisation (SHO) Institute of Medical Technology has pledged its support to the ongoing agitation by Anna Hazare. Its secretary and correspondent T. Seva Kumar on Monday called on Jan Lokpal samithi president Oruganti Narayan Reddy, who has been on an indefinite fast at Rajendra Nagar and expressed his solidarity with the struggle for tabling the Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament.
He expressed opinion that Jan Lokpal Bill was the only way to curb corruption.
