{"id":9930,"date":"2022-10-13T04:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:49:21","slug":"jayaprakash-narayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jayaprakash-narayan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayaprakash Narayan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was born on October 11, 1902, in Bihar\u2019s Sitab Diara.<\/li>\n<li>He quit college to join the non-cooperation movement, before going to study at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx.<\/li>\n<li>He returned to India in 1929 and joined the freedom struggle and the\u00a0Indian National Congress, upon the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru and drawn by a speech by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.<\/li>\n<li>He is one of the founding members of the Congress Socialist Party (CSP).<\/li>\n<li>He is credited for galvanising popular opinion against Indira Gandhi government, through his call for Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution). It led to the formation of the first non-Congress government (Janata Party government, 1977) in the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India\u2019s highest civilian award, in recognition of his social service.<\/li>\n<li>Other awards include the Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>urce :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/jayaprakash-narayan-the-man-the-movement-and-his-proteges-8204915\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly referred to as JP, was an Indian independence socialist, political leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}