Advani embarks on Jan Chetna Yatra

Wakta badal jata hai; Advani recalls his arrest in Bihar 

Clean Media Correspondent

Chapra (Bihar), Oct 11 (CMC) Senior BJP leader L K Advani today went down memory lane and recalled the period when he was arrested from Samastipur in Bihar during his rath yatra in 1990 for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.

"I recall the period when I got arrested following the order of the then chief minister in course of my rath yatra on the temple issue and was lodged in Masanjore which is now in Jharkhand," Advani said while addressing a public meeting where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar flagged off his Jan Chetna Rath against corruption.

"There is a lot of change then and now... today the chief minister of the same state has come to welcome and flag off the yatra," he said.

He was castigating his arrest from Samastipur following order of the then Chief Minister Lalu Prasad.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Kumar, without naming Lalu Prasad, decried that there were people who were terming the Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption as "communal" in nature.

"They have also questioned my secular image for flagging off the Yatra... they should know it is yatra against corruption which won't be tolerated by people any more," he said.

"People should well understand the writing on the wall and take lesson from the JP movement," he said.