Jayaprakash Narayan

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In news- Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan Jayanti was celebrated on 11th October.

About Jayaprakash Narayan-

He was popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak and was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader.

He was born on 11 October 1902 in Sitab Diara, Saran district, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Jayaprakash got inspired by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s speech about the Non-co-operation movement launched by Gandhi against the passing of the Rowlatt Act of 1919.
He joined the Bihar Vidyapeeth, a college founded by Rajendra Prasad and became among the first students of Gandhian Anugraha Narayan Sinha.
He completed his higher studies in the USA.
He returned from the US to India in late 1929 and joined the Indian National Congress on the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1929.
Mahatma Gandhi became his mentor in the Congress.
He was jailed in 1932 for civil disobedience against British rule and after his release, the Congress Socialist Party (CSP), a left-wing group within the Congress, was formed with Acharya Narendra Deva as President and Narayan as General secretary.
He is also known as the “Hero of Quit India Movement“.
Between 1947 and 1953, he was President of All India Railwaymen’s Federation, the largest labour union in the Indian Railways.
He led the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he had called for a “total revolution” ( Sampoorna kranti).
His biography, ‘Jayaprakash’, was written by his friend and the writer of Hindi literature, Rambriksh Benipuri.
He was awarded the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.
He died in Patna, Bihar, on 8 October 1979, due to effects of diabetes and heart ailments.
In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, in recognition of his social service.