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Call for ‘sampoorna kranti’ shook Indira govt: How a semi-retired Jayaprakash Narayan stirred student protests into a storm

June 25, 2025 8:45 pm

From Gujarat to Bihar, the protesters looked up to JP, with the movement led by him paving the way for an alternative to Congress, and to a star line-up of future leaders such as Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar

Janata Party: The giant slayer slayed by own giants

June 26, 2025 7:33 am

How in the very origin of the front, comprising parties with conflicting ideologies and agendas coming together in opposition to Indira Gandhi, lay the seeds of its unravelling

From a spiteful election to a ‘total revolution’: How 1974 set the stage for the Emergency

December 27, 2024 9:21 pm

From a student protest in Gujarat to a call for a revolution in Bihar, the political and social developments that took place in India 50 years ago created an environment that led to the Emergency in 1975.

Decode Politics: Why SP, BJP have again locked horns over an incomplete JP memorial

October 15, 2024 8:07 am

The Jayaprakash Narayan International Convention Centre in Lucknow has been under construction for the past seven years. While Akhilesh Yadav alleges “political vendetta” as the reason, the BJP has said the project is a “symbol of corruption” and SP chief of “using it for cheap publicity”.

The icons of social justice movements from the '60s and '80s – Jayaprakash Narayan (right) and Karpoori Thakur – have returned to the news over the last few days in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar (Express Archive)

Recall, redeploy, reinvent: How INDIA partners are reclaiming socialist icons JP, Kanshi Ram, Karpoori Thakur

October 15, 2023 12:25 pm

If Congress is holding Dalit Gaurav Samaj meetings across UP with the late BSP founder Kanshi Ram in the front, Nitish's JD(U) is holding Karpoori Charchas, and Akhilesh just made a splash with his 'JP moment'

shyamlal yadav writes on the lasting impact of jayaprakash narayan's legacy and the opposition's plans in the 2024 lok sabha polls

The JP template and Opposition’s 2024 plans: The Lok Nayak's continuing relevance

June 10, 2025 5:57 pm

Though the Janata experiment faltered and the lessons of his Total Revolution call were forgotten, it is up to those in charge of charting a path for the Opposition to remember those lessons.

As Amit Shah heads for JP village, JD(U), RJD slam BJP play for socialist icon

October 06, 2022 6:07 pm

Modi once said 'You have JP, we have BJP'. Now Amit Shah to visit Jayaprakash Narayan's Sitab Diara village on Oct 11

The Dream of Revolution lays bare Jayaprakash Narayan's quest for revolution, why his legacy lies forgotten

January 04, 2022 12:54 pm

In a crisp 200 pages, The Dream of Revolution — a biography begun by the late historian Bimal Prasad, a close associate of Jayaprakash Narayan’s, and completed by his daughter, art historian Sujata Prasad — narrates the singular, often surprising political life, which bridged the era of Bhagat Singh and civil disobedience with that of George Fernandes and the Janata Party.

October 13, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Anti-graft campaign

October 13, 2021 7:35 am

Five organisations, including the Citizens for Democracy and Lok Sevak Eangh, founded by Jayaprakash Narayan, decided at a meeting in New Delhi to launch an all-India campaign against corruption.

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Remembering Jayaprakash Narayan, the people's hero

October 10, 2021 7:30 am

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes: Even though power was within his reach many times, he preferred to work at the grassroots, strengthening India’s democratic foundation.