Click to play videoNew Delhi: A 72-year-old Gandhian. Now a celebrity on Twitter. Tweets pour in every minute. He's struck a chord with youngsters a quarter his age. Anna Hazare's certainly a celebrity online as well, with lakhs of people pledging support, on social networking sites. Anna Hazare's second coming rides on a wave of technology.
The Facebook page for Anna Hazare's non-violent protest had more than two lakh forty thousand 'likes' on Wednesday afternoon.
'India against Corruption' on Facebook clocked three lakh twenty thousand plus supporters. A separate web page for the movement says 1.3 crore people rung up to show solidarity. It hosts a list of protests planned across India, with the organisers cell numbers and email ids for easy referral.
All that, masterminded by quiet engineers like Kevin Gala. Working behind the scenes, he and his team have harnessed the web to spread Anna's web across India.
The IT Engineer behind Anna's online campaign Gala said, "We have seen support for the campaign grow exponentially over the past three days."
On a funnier note, there is a Anna cartoon doing the rounds online. Angry Birds anyone? And oh - Anna Hazare t-shirts selling online are also being sold for just a few hundred rupees.
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