Advani completes his marathon rally against corruption in New Delhi

New Delhi, Nov 20 (PTI) All the 215 MPs of India’s main opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will submit a declaration to Parliament within the next 10 days stating that they have no illegal assets or banks accounts abroad, leader of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) L K Advani announced today at the end of a marathon 7,600 km 38-day 'public awakening' yatra against corruption. "Within one week of the start of the Parliament session on November 22, all NDA MPs will give a declaration that they do not possess any bank account or illegal wealth abroad," he said addressing a rally at the Ramlila grounds here. Advani said the declaration would be handed over by Lok Sabha MPs to Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha MPs to Chairman Hamid Ansari. It will read, "I solemnly declare that I do not have directly or indirectly any bank account or asset illegally held outside India." 84-year-old Advani, who toured 22 states and five Union territories, said even though his journey has ended, the battle against corruption would continue. Accusing the government of "lack of political will" to fight graft, Advani said the only route to end corruption is through public awakening or a change of government. Flanked by top BJP and NDA leaders, Advani said, "the fog around India's politics will not go automatically. It will go only by public awakening or by the change of government." He added, "My Yatra against corruption has ended, but this war will carry on till we conquer corruption." Among those present were BJP’s Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, Shiv Sena’s Anant Geete, Ramdas Athavale of RPI as well as AIADMK 's M Thambidurai. Raising the pitch against the government on the blackmoney issue, Advani said it has not provided any concrete information or steps taken by it. Accusing the government of not having the will to tackle graft, Advani said, "Corruption is rampant in the country and this government is known as the most-corrupt. The main reason for not eradicating corruption is not the lack of laws, but the lack of political will to act against corruption." PTI Caption for pic: Senior BJP leader L K Advani (centre with folded arms) along with other leaders of NDA at his last public meeting of his "Jan Chetna Yatra" at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI Photo