Stir becomes talk of Tricity

CHANDIGARH: A candle light march on Day One of the Anna Hazare's indefinite fast seeking enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill had ignited people's anti-corruption sentiment and on Day Four, residents collected at various places to talk about this.
The movement has also been making its presence felt in Mohali and Panchkula.
Politicians are preferring to stay away from protest spots where people from other walks of life are expressing their views against corruption.
''We had started our dharna with just two people, but in last four days, we have got the support from strangers. We are not calling them. They are voluntarily joining us,'' said advocate Gaurav Goyal who is sitting on indefinite hunger strike at the sector 18/7 roundabout.
Manimajra resident Abhishek Bansal, who is studying for his third year in mechanical engineering from Mandi Gobindgarh, said he and his friends were going to a rally on Saturday, which would start from Government Museum and Art Gallery in Sector 10 at noon.
''We will move throughout the city to collect signatures from residents with a pledge that they will never involve themselves in corrupt practices,'' he added.
Mohali-resident Dr Ashish Vashisht, a post-graduate student of public health and dentistry at M M University, Mullana, said while sitting on hunger strike that the way common people were associating with the movement a day was not far when the Union government would be forced to implement the Jan Lokpal Bill.