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Lawyers in Rajkot have joined the bandwagon of students, artists and historians campaigning to get the Taj Mahal inducted into the new list of Seven Wonders of the World.
Rajkot, June 24 : Lawyers in Rajkot have joined the bandwagon of students, artists and historians campaigning to get the Taj Mahal inducted into the new list of 'Seven Wonders of the World.'
With just about two weeks to go for the result to be announced on July 7, people from all walks of life are lobbying hard across the country for the online poll to ensure a place for the Taj Mahal, which has already made it to the top ten.
Hundreds of members of the Rajkot Bar Association met after work hours and cast their votes collectively.
"I had voted for the Taj earlier also, but we lawyers decided to vote collectively. Taj is the pride of India and we will vote for it for sure as we are Indians," Chetna Katchria, a lawyer, said.
Elsewhere in the city, Bhati N, an artist, grew a 4-inch nail on his little finger to paint the 'monument of love' in seven colours.
"I decided I would use the 4-inch long fingernail on my left hand to paint the Taj to make an appeal to all and sundry to vote for the Taj. I worked on the 3-feet by 2-feet painting for two days. I painted it in seven colours to signify the 'seven', the number of New Wonders of the World, we hope it will become a part of," said Bhati.
From India's Taj Mahal to Mexico's Mayan ruins, suggestions for the new list have flooded in from more than 60 million people in one of the biggest global polls ever conducted.
Mughal emperor Shahjahan built Taj Mahal in the 17th century as a symbol of his enduring love for his wife Mumtaz.
The 21 finalists in the new wonders list, which include Rome's Colosseum, Jordan's ancient city of Petra, Britain's Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China, were short listed on January 1 by a panel of experts chaired by former head of UNESCO, Federico Mayor.
The organisation conducting the poll was set up by Swiss-Canadian adventurer Bernard Weber. The results will be announced in Portugal's Benfica Stadium of Light on July 7.
ANI
