Anti-graft march planned from Patna to Delhi
May 29th, 2011 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 29 (IANS) A march to protest against corruption will be taken out from Patna to Delhi June 4-13, its organisers said Sunday.
Called under the banner of social organisation LNJP Studies and Development Center, the march will start from Patna, the home town of socialist leader late Jayaprakash Narayan, and will end in the national capital June 13.
“The main motive of the march is to revisit the 1974 movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan to bring a change in the system,” said Abhya Sinha, national secretary of the group.
In Delhi, the march will be attended social activist Swami Agnivesh, veteran journalist Kuldeep Nayar and former election commissioner G.V.G Krishnamurthy among others, Sinha added.
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