His fan following in Punjab can be gauged from the fact that now a full-fledged Students’ Union — Gandhi Group of Students’ Union (GGSU) — with more than three lakh students connected to it runs across universities and colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh. Gandhi was abducted from Samrala road on September 5, 2003 and found murdered at village Saloudi. His knees and arms were broken. He was hung from a tree and shot twice and his body dumped in the Bhakhra canal. It was almost ten days after that his body was recovered and cremated secretly to avoid law and order problems. “We cremated him after ten days. Police told us to keep it a secret,” said his brother Maninder Singh, laying to rest rumours that his body was never found. Eleven people booked for Gandhi’s murder are currently lodged in Patiala jail and in 2007 Maninder too was booked for attempt to murder after he shot at Lakhi, the main accused in the Gandhi murder case. Maninder, however, claims his brother was never a ‘gangster’. “He was unanimously selected as sarpanch at the age of 22. Whatever fights he had throughout his life were for welfare of others, not a single one was his personal. He fought for honour of girls, rights of the poor and against those who encroached lands of the poor,” says Maninder who is now planning to make Part-2 of the film. “He was named Gandhi by our father when he was born on October 2. Our family is associated with Congress and Gandhi always stood up for poor in the village,” he says.