Jaiprakash Narayan
This is the 122nd birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as Loknayak and Jannayak. He started a complete revolution against the Congress government. His movement is known as JP Movement. Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar, who ruled Indian politics for decades, are the gifts of this JP movement. All three leaders were student leaders at the time of the movement, but after this movement they had become big names in the politics of the country. Here we are telling about Jayaprakash Narayan.
JP was born in a village situated between the Ganga and Ghaghar rivers. This place is called Dwaaba. At present this village falls in Ballia district on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. JP was the fourth child of his parents and left home at the age of just nine.
were top in studies
Since childhood, JP was very interested in studies. He also read magazines like Pratap, through which the feeling of freedom was instilled in the people of the country. He got married in 1920, but his studies did not stop. After completing his schooling, he went to America. Here he understood the ideas of Karl Marx and was greatly influenced by them. In 1929 he returned to the country and participated in the country’s independence. When big leaders like Mahatma Gandhi went to jail, JP took over, but he was also jailed. However, everyone’s hard work paid off and the country became independent.
JP’s strength visible after independence
Two decades after the country’s independence, Jayaprakash Narayan started a movement against the Congress government. He started a complete revolution. It includes seven revolutions – political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, educational and spiritual revolution. Many great leaders emerged from this revolution. Lalu, Nitish and Mulayam were the most successful among them. Sushil Modi, Sharad Yadav also became big leaders from this movement. Due to this movement, Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency. However, in the end the Congress party was out of power.
10 lakh people broke the sacred thread
Through the social revolution included in JP’s complete revolution, he worked to eliminate casteism from the society. On his request, 10 lakh people broke their sacred thread and decided that they would not accept the caste system. The impact of his movement is visible even today. Atal Bihari Vajpayee had also written a poem for JP, in which he had apologized to Mahatma Gandhi because he could not fulfill the promise given to him and the destination remained incomplete. Along with this, he had assured JP that broken dreams will be joined together and darkness will be removed.
