Birth Anniversary of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan & Nanaji Deshmukh Jayanti

Context

The Prime Minister has paid tributes to Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh and Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on their birth anniversary.

He was born on October 11, 1902, in the remote village of Sitabdiara, Bihar.
He was marxist in his youth and founder general secretary of the Congress Socialist Party and the Socialist Party.
He was a hero of the 1942 Quit India movement.
He declined to join Nehru’s cabinet and after 1955 quit active politics.
He became a Gandhian and was involved in the Bhoodan movement.
He was leader of the Bihar movement and he became the symbol of opposition to Emergency and was the moving force behind the formation of Janata Party.
Total Revolution: It was put forward by Jayaprakash Narayan in the wake of Bihar Movement in Patna on June 5, 1974.
- It is a further extension of Gandhi’s thought on socio-economic problems and technique of change in the context of contemporary social, economic and political reality.

He was born on October 11, 1916.
He was social reformer and politician from India
- He was a founder member of the Janata Party and one of the senior most members of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance.
His stellar contribution towards rural development showed the way for a new paradigm of empowering those living in our villages.
He was an active participant of the Bhoodan Movement launched by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
He also extended his support to Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for ‘Total Revolution’.