LOKNAYAK JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN
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Context: Prime Minister of India bowed to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his Jayanti.
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- He was influenced by Marxist ideas in the USA and Gandhian ideology.
- In 1929, he joined the Indian National Congress.
- In 1932 imprisoned for a year for participation in the civil disobedience movement.
- He played a key role in the formation of the Congress Socialist Party (1934), a left-wing group within the Congress Party.
- 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).
- He advocated a program of social transformation which he termed ‘Sampoorna Kranti' 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".
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