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14/10/22 13:16 PM IST

Jayaprakash Narayan

In News 
  • Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently unveiled a 15-feet high statue of socialist icon Jayaprakash Narayan at his ancestral village of Sitab Diara in Saran district of Bihar.
JP Narayan 
  • founding member of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) in 1934.
  • He formed the Socialist Party ( which was merged with J B Kripalani’s Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party to form the Praja Socialist Party in 1952).
  • He led the Sampoorn Kranti (Total Revolution) movement organised during Indira Gandhi’s regime (during the National emergency in 1975).
  • He was disillusioned with political parties and called for communitarian democracy.
  • Parties, he believed, were centralised and susceptible to moral and financial corruption.
Post-Independence Role
  • In 1948, he left the Congress Party and initiated an anti-Congress Campaign.
  • In 1952, he formed the Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
  • In 1954, he devoted his life exclusively to the Bhoodan Yajna Movement, of Vinoba Bhave, which demanded land redistribution to the landless.
  • In 1959 he argued for a “reconstruction of Indian polity” by means of a four-tier hierarchy of village, district, state, and union councils (Chaukhamba Raj).
  • Total Revolution: Against Indira Gandhi Regime as she was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court. He advocated a program of social transformation which he termed ‘Sampoorna Kranti' (total revolution) in 1974 against corruption in public life.
  • Jayaprakash Narayan was posthumously conferred with 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- Indian Express 

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