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Jayaprakash Narayan was popularly known as:

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Answer: Option C — Lok Nayak

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Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979), popularly called "JP", was known as "Lok Nayak" ("People's Leader").

About Jayaprakash Narayan:

  • He was born on 11 October 1902 in Sitab Diara, a village on the border of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
  • He studied in the USA, at universities such as Berkeley, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio State, where he worked to pay his fees and was influenced by Marxism.
  • He returned to India in 1929 and joined the freedom struggle.
  • In 1934, he was one of the founders of the Congress Socialist Party, along with Acharya Narendra Dev, Ram Manohar Lohia and others.
  • During the Quit India Movement (1942), he escaped from Hazaribagh Central Jail and organised underground resistance, which made him a national hero.
  • After independence, he left party politics and joined Vinoba Bhave's "Bhoodan" (land gift) movement in 1954.
  • In 1972, he helped persuade dacoits in the Chambal valley to surrender.

Total Revolution and the Emergency:

In 1974, he led the student movement in Bihar against corruption and called for "Sampoorna Kranti" ("Total Revolution").

On 25 June 1975, at a rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, he called for resistance to the government. That night, the Emergency was declared by the Indira Gandhi government, and he was arrested.

He helped unite the opposition parties into the Janata Party, which won the 1977 elections, and Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress Prime Minister.

Honours:

  • Ramon Magsaysay Award (1965).
  • Bharat Ratna (1999, posthumously).
  • Patna Airport is named "Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport".

Titles of other leaders:

"Deshbandhu": C. R. Das.

"Rajarshi": Purushottam Das Tandon.

"Netaji": Subhas Chandra Bose.

"Lok Nayak" is also sometimes used for others, but in exams it refers to JP.

Why not the other options?

"Deshbandhu" was the title of C. R. Das.

"Rajarshi" was the title of Purushottam Das Tandon.

"Netaji" was the title of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Quick tip

Remember: Jayaprakash Narayan = "Lok Nayak" (Total Revolution 1974; Janata Party 1977; Magsaysay 1965; Bharat Ratna 1999); C. R. Das = "Deshbandhu"; P. D. Tandon = "Rajarshi".

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