Allahabad/Thane/Jodhpur, Aug 16 (ANI): People across India held nationwide protests against veteran social activist Anna Hazare's arrest on Tuesday and slammed the UPA Government at the Centre for meting out such a cruel treatment to the crusader, who is spearheading an anti-corruption campaign.
Carrying flags and placards, advocates in Allahabad city said that they would continue to support Hazare and take forward the anti-corruption campaign.
"Till the time we eradicate corruption from the entire country, we would continue to support Anna Hazare (social activist) and we would help him in his anti-corruption struggle," said Sunil Sharma, an advocate of Allahabad.
Schools students in the city took to the streets and said that no one has ever bothered about the future of Indians as Hazare has.
"Anna Hazare is fighting against corruption for the common man's sake. No one can ever do something like this selflessly as he is doing. He is genuinely is bothered for our future. I am deeply saddened that the Prime Minister of the country has turned a deaf ear to his requests and the New Delhi has arrested him," said Pooja Tiwari, a school student.
Meanwhile, students in Maharashtra's Thane city highlighted the discrepancies in government offices across India and said that everyone from a clerk to the Prime Minister is corrupt.
"I have personally witnessed that nothing in any government organisation works without giving money. The common man is shooed away with the words 'come tomorrow, come later' and is forced to pay huge sums of money to government officials, which is highly incorrect," said Neha Gaikwad, a school student in Thane.
"We oppose this and stand by Hazare who is fighting against corruption in the country. From the Prime Minister to a local clerk, everyone is gripped with corruption," she added.
Locals in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city too voiced their support for the 74-year-old Gandhian, and said that they would continue to voice support to Hazare and his campaign against corruption.
"We are with Hazare and we are deeply saddened that the federal government of India is indulging in suppressing voices that support the common man's cause. We would continue to carry peaceful agitations," said Raveesh Kumar, a protestor at Jodhpur.
"Now, we will no more bow down before corruption at state or central level. We will go to prisons if it is needed. Let us see how many jails the government has to detain us," he added.
Hazare was sent to seven-day judicial custody in Tihar Jail earlier in the day.
A Special Magistrate Court sent the social activist to Tihar Jail after he refused to sign a personal bond.
Hazare was asked to sign an undertaking promising that he would not violate Section 144.
The Anna Hazare team earlier in the day said they will approach the Supreme Court against the detention ahead of the proposed indefinite fast, claiming that the police action was 'totally undemocratic'. (ANI)
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