How Anna united people for a common cause
New Delhi: There is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a
rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi.
Yet
they have been bound together by a common link...
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How Anna united people for a common cause
New Delhi: There is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a
rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi.
Yet
they have been bound together by a common link called Anna Hazare.
Prasad has been
literally camping at the Ramlila Maidan here in central Delhi for the past 11 days
- ever since the 74-year-old activist came here to continue his fast protest in
demand for a strong, anti-graft bill.
Like scores of other supporters, Prasad eats and sleeps at the sprawling ground,
going out around mid-day to ferry passengers.
He is not able to earn much money but
has no complaints.
Anna ji is in fast because of people like me.
We suffer everyday because people
are so corrupt.
The traffic policemen take bribe from us to allow us to ride on the
roads - as it is we earn a pittance, then with the bribe and the money that we have
to pay the owner of the rickshaw, we are hardly left with anything, P
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