Advani Rath Yatra Enters Day 2

Senior BJP leader Lal Krishn Advani's nation wide Rath Yatra named as 'Jan Chetna Yatra' has entered day 2 on Wednesday - 12 October 2011. According sources, he will be addressing the press at Patna and then move ahead to Varanasi. It is reported that he will be addressing three public meetings in Varanasi on Wednesday itself.

Advani on Tuesday began his 38-day anti-corruption yatra from Sitab Diara village in Bihar - the birth place of Socialist leader Jaya Prakash Narayan. The yatra was flagged off by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Advani was accompanied by senior BJP leaders, including Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar and Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Avoiding the leadership crisis issue within the BJP, Advani stuck to speeches on corruption and urged voters to defeat the ruling UPA government. He stretched on the need to bring back the black money stashed away in foreign banks for the upliftment of the poor in our country. He alleged that the UPA government is not doing anything in this direction in spite of demand from opposition parties and many a social organizations. He also demanded the government to release a whitepaper on the black money.