Jai Prakash Narayan was an Indian political leader and theorist. Jayaprakash Narayan is popularly called JP or Lok Nayak. He is remembered for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's call for “total revolution” against the Emergency. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social service. Today, on his birth anniversary on 11th October, let us try to remember him through this article.
Jai Prakash Narayan was born on October 11, 1902. Jayaprakash Narayan 'Srivastava' was born on 11 October 1902 in Sitab Diara village, Saran district, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, India).
He holds an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. in Behavioral Sciences from The Ohio State University. Has received the title of.
In Wisconsin, Jayaprakash was introduced to Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital'. The news of the Bolsheviks' success in the Russian Civil War forced Jayaprakash to conclude that Marxism was the only way to alleviate the suffering of the masses. He studied under the Indian intellectual and communist theorist M.N. Studied Roy's books in depth. His paper on sociology, “Cultural Variation”, was declared the best of the year.
JP returned to India from America at the end of 1929 as a Marxist. After his arrival in India, he joined the Indian National Congress. He was a follower of Gandhiji. In 1932, he was sentenced to one year in prison for participating in the civil disobedience movement against British rule.
Upon his release from prison he played a leading role in the formation of the Congress Socialist Party, a leftist group within the Congress Party. He was imprisoned again by the British in the year 1939 for opposing the participation of Indians on behalf of Britain in the Second World War. JP managed to escape from jail but was caught again in 1943. After his release in 1946 he tried to persuade Congress leaders to adopt a more militant policy against British rule. But ultimately in 1948, he left the Congress Party along with most of the Congress socialists.
In 1952 he formed the Praja Socialist Party. Soon becoming dissatisfied with party politics, he announced in 1954 that he would henceforth devote his life exclusively to the Bhoodan Yagya movement founded by Vinoba Bhave, which sought to distribute land among the landless. Additionally, between 1947 and 1953, Jayaprakash Narayan was also the President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation, the largest labor union of the Indian Railways.
In 1975, Indira Gandhi declared emergency, against which there were widespread movements across the country and JP emerged as the face of this protest. JP's slogan of “Total Revolution” echoed from Gandhi Maidan in Patna to Parliament.
“भ्रष्टाचार मिटाना, बेरोजगारी दूर करना, शिक्षा में क्रांति लाना, आदि ऐसी चीजें हैं जो आज की व्यवस्था से पूरी नहीं हो सकतीं; क्योंकि वे इस व्यवस्था की ही उपज हैं। वे तभी पूरी हो सकती हैं जब सम्पूर्ण व्यवस्था बदल दी जाए और सम्पूर्ण व्यवस्था के परिवर्तन के लिए क्रान्ति, ‘सम्पूर्ण क्रान्ति’ आवश्यक है।” जय प्रकाश नारायण
He was known as 'Loknayak' due to his leadership during the Emergency and his call for 'complete revolution'. According to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, the total revolution includes seven revolutions – political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, educational and spiritual revolution. Combining these seven revolutions constitutes a complete revolution.
Jayaprakash Narayan died at his residence in Patna on October 8, 1979 due to heart disease and diabetes. In his honour, the then Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh had announced 7 days of national mourning.
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