Date:03/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120358680300.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Vijayawada

Students hold candlelight demonstration

Staff Reporter

Pay tributes to martyrs, raise slogans against terrorism

Youth Red Cross volunteers of SDM Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala in Vijayawada light up candles before formation of a human chain on Tuesday.

VIJAYAWADA: Condemning the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, students of the Youth Red Cross wing of Sri Durga Malleswara Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala staged a candlelight demonstration on Mahatma Gandhi Road here on Tuesday.

Over 100 students of the college participated in the rally that began at 9 a.m.

Holding placards with slogans against terrorism and saluting the martyrs, the students formed a human chain and lit candles.

Passersby waited for a moment to hear the slogans, while some of them complimented the students for staging the demonstration.

Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala (junior college) principal T. Asha Rani and coordinator of the Youth Red Cross unit S. Vijayalakshmi and others were present.

Silent rally

Members of the Krishna urban unit of the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) took out a silent rally from Press Club at Gandhi Nagar, which wound through Lenin Centre, Besant Road, MG Road, Buckingham post office and Eluru road before reaching Press Club again.

They paid tributes to Sabina Sehgal Saikia, who died in Hotel Taj Mahal in terrorist attacks.

Members of Lions Club district 324-C4 took out a padayatra for peace from Benz circle to PWD grounds, condemning the terror attacks in Mumbai.