Patna, Oct. 10: The BJP expects its senior leader L.K. Advani to do a Jaya Prakash Narayan through his Jan Chetna Yatra, commencing on Tuesday. Its leaders believe the campaign would bring in a change at the Centre.

“We are feeling so because the present situation is somewhat similar to the one prevailing during the JP Movement of 1974. The issue of corruption had taken the centre stage then also,” the BJP Bihar unit president, Dr C.P. Thakur, told reporters today.

He claimed that the only difference now was the magnitude of corruption. It has gone up by several notches, Thakur said. Displaying a photograph of his with late Jaya Prakash Narayan, the BJP president said Advani’s yatra would create a situation similar to that after the JP Movement and a change in regime at the Centre was almost certain.

He said corruption apart, the BJP would raise the issue of black money stacked in foreign banks during the course of Advani’s yatra. He claimed that if this money could be brought back, the government would be able to provide a house to every poor person in the country. Expressing surprise over the criticism of Advani’s yatra by some political parties, Dr Thakur said: “I fail to see a reason that is forcing people to protest an effort aimed at curbing corruption.”

Dr Thakur said Anant Kumar, Ram Lal, Saudan Singh, Dharmendra Pradhan, Vani Tripathi and Muralidhar Rao were expected in the city today. He said Advani’s wife Kamla and daughter Pratibha would accompany the BJP patriarch during his yatra. Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley would be with Advani during his Bihar visit.