BJP’s Bihar unit president CP Thakur addresses a news meet in Patna on Sunday. Picture by Ashok Sinha

Patna, Feb. 6: Bolstered by the massive congregation at the workers’ felicitation meet, the confident BJP leaders today talked about launching a nationwide movement against corruption from Bihar.

“Bihar led the country when late Jai Prakash Narayan launched his movement in the 1970s. The country is facing almost similar condition and the enthusiasm of party workers gives us the confidence to say that Bihar will once again lead from the front in the battle against corruption,” BJP Bihar unit president C.P. Thakur told journalists at a news meet organised to thank the party leaders and workers for making the felicitation event a grand success.

“While workers turned up in large numbers, those responsible in managing the show exhibited exemplary planning ability. The whole event was managed well,” Thakur said.

Coming back to the corruption issue, he said the party workers were keen to launch a national movement against scams. “We would soon chart out the details of the movement that would be launched against corruption,” said Thakur.

Responding to a query about the poor quality of chair being offered to BJP patriarch Kailashpati Mishra while juniors to him were seated in cosy couches, Thakur said: “Nothing much should be read into this. Mishraji is facing some health problems and he would not have felt comfortable in sitting in the couch, as it was lower in height. There is no question of not paying due attention to him.”

The Bihar BJP unit became the second in the country to organise a workers’ felicitation meet. The Madhya Pradesh unit of the party had organised a similar show earlier.

With the BJP having won about 90 per cent of the 102 seats it contested in the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections, there was a general demand from the leaders and workers to organise a rally after the spectacular win.

If workers showed enthusiasm in taking part in the meet with the demand of entry passes outnumbering its availability, the party top leadership also responded well.

Almost all the prominent faces of the BJP, including party national president Nitin Gadkari and leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, taking out time to attend it.