Anna Hazare's managers have started a website for the Jail Bharo movement, Jail Bharo Andolan, where people who are willing to fill the jails in his support can register their details. If they want to register through SMS, the website has the number to which they can send the SMS.
Time hanging a bit heavily on my hands, I ambled across to the website to see what it was about. It's a simple site with a simple form where you fill in your name, city, state, mobile number to register. It also shows the current count of how many people have registered so far.
Well, as we all know, the entire country is behind him. So who'd blame us if we expect the number of registered people to be a few hundred millions? Or maybe a few millions? OK, if not that many, a few lakhs at least? At least a lakh? But no, it turns out we'd be dead wrong. The actual total thus far: 48413.
Click on the graph to enlarge it.
Eight states account for 75% of the supporters: Delhi & NCR, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, MP, UP, AP, Rajasthan. Four states account for nearly half of the supporters so far: Delhi & NCR, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat. Where the hell is the nationwide support?
Maybe it will build up over the New Year weekend. Wait and watch this space.
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