"Thousands of students skipped classes and took out rallies in support of Anna Hazare as protests against the arrest of the social activist continued for the second consecutive day across the state on Wednesday.
Members of NGOs and elderly persons lent their support to the agitation even as crowds swelled compared to Tuesday. Social activists threw their weight behind the protest for the second day as slogans of `Vande Mataram', `Hum Annake saath hai,' `Save India...boycott corruption' and `Anna Hazare zindabad' rent the air. Forming of human chains, burning of effigies, staging of rasta rokos, rallies and conducing relay hunger strikes marked the day. What caught the attention at the protests was the active participation of students, who turned up in large numbers.
"This is a great opportunity to put an end to corruption. Anna Hazare is leading a movement to weed out corruption but not to topple the government. Arresting him is unjustified," said a senior professor of Palamur University in Mahbubnagar.
Interestingly, the students were not willing to join along with political party agitators during the rallies in the districts. They said the fight was not against any political party but against the system. A large number of girl students participated in a relay hunger strike in Vijayawada. The Palamur University students boycotted classes, while people from all walks of life took to the streets in Achampet, Narayanpet, Wanaparthy and in Kalwakurthy in Mahbubnagar district.
Students at Acharya Nagarjuna University staged rasta rokos on the National Highway in protest against the arrest of Hazare. "Anna is fighting for us. We are here to support him," an M Sc student said. Students formed human chains at Eluru, Tanuku, Bhimavaram, Kakinada and Rajahmundry, while SFI took out a funeral procession of the union government's effigy in Eluru and burnt it later. Prof Venkatnarayana, convener of People's organizations, demanded that the Centre immediately table the Jan Lokpal bill in Parliament Advocates boycotted courts in Guntur, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Chittoor, Huzurabad, Sultanabad and several other districts, while several others sat on relay hunger strikes at Tenali, Mangalagiri, Repalle, Adilabad, Manchiryal and other towns."
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