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Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan

Posted on October 13, 2021 by admin1  2005

In News

  • Recently, the Prime Minister paid tributes to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his Jayanti.

Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan

  • About: 
    • He was born on October 11, 1902, in the remote village of Sitabdiara, Bihar.
    • Socialist/ Marxist influence: Jayaprakash Narayan went to the US for education, where he was deeply influenced by Marxist ideology.
      • However, he rejected the ultimate solution of “revolution” to bring down capitalism as being advocated by the Marxists and instead advocated Socialism.

  • Contribution to Freedom Struggle:
    • In 1929, he joined the Indian National Congress.
  • Imprisonment:
    • In 1932, he was imprisoned for a year, for participation in the civil disobedience movement.
    • In 1939, due to his opposition to Indian participation in World War II on the side of Britain, he managed to escape.
  • He played a key role in the formation of the Congress Socialist Party (1934), a left-wing group within the Congress Party.

His role in the Post-Independence Era

  • He left the Congress Party in 1948 and initiated an anti-Congress Campaign.
  • In 1952- formed the Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
  • In 1954- he started the Bhoodan Yajna Movement of Vinoba Bhave, which demanded land redistribution to the landless.
  • In 1959, he fought for “reconstruction of Indian polity” by means of a four-tier hierarchy of village, district, state, and union councils (Chaukhamba Raj).
  • Total Revolution: He started a program for social transformation named ‘Sampoorna Kranti’ (total revolution) in 1974 against corruption in public life.
    •  This program targeted the Indira Gandhi Regime as she was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court.
    • The objective was to bring in a change in the existing society that is in tune with the ideals of the Sarvodaya (Gandhian philosophy- progress for all).

Accreditation 

  • He was posthumously awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna (1999), for his “invaluable contribution to the freedom struggle and upliftment of the poor and downtrodden”.

Source: PIB

 
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