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Patna, October 11 (IANS) Vice President CP Radhakrishnan will visit Bihar on Saturday to pay tribute to Bharat Ratna Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary.
The Vice President will visit Sitab Diara, the ancestral village of Jayaprakash Narayan in Saran district, to pay floral tributes to the great freedom fighter and social reformer.
He will also visit the Prabhavati Library, established in memory of Narayan’s wife, Prabhavati Devi.
This will be Radhakrishnan’s second visit to Bihar after assuming office.
Earlier, on September 28, he participated in the closing session of the third edition of Unmesha International Literature Festival held at Gyan Bhawan, Samrat Ashoka Convention Center in Patna.
Born in Sitab Diara on October 11, 1902, Jayaprakash Narayan is remembered as a key figure in India’s independence movement and the architect of the total revolution movement.
Bharat Ratna Jayaprakash Narayan was the towering freedom fighter and social reformer.
After adopting Marxist ideology, Narayan returned to India from the United States in late 1929.
The same year, he joined the Indian National Congress at the invitation of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, who later became his mentors within the party.
When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed national emergency at midnight on June 25, 1975, calling for the restoration of democracy, Jayaprakash Narayan emerged as the face of the ‘Total Revolution’ movement.
At the rally at the historic Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, he gathered a huge crowd of around one lakh people and recited powerful lines from poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar: ‘Singhasan khali karo ke janta aati hai’ (Evacuate the throne, because the people are coming).
After this, Jayaprakash Narayan was detained and put in jail. His health deteriorated on October 24, 1975, forcing the government to release him on November 12 of the same year.
Jayaprakash Narayan remains an enduring symbol of the courage, integrity and power of mass movements in India’s democratic history.
–IANS
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