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Jayaprakash Narayan with his wife Radha, at Shamshabad International Airport, Hyderabad. Jayaprakash Narayana was born on 14 January 1956, in Naghbir, Maharashtra into a Telugu speaking family of Venkateswara Rao and Balamma. His father was a Railway employee.
Jayaprakash Narayan gathered a crowd of 100,000 people at Ramlila grounds and recited Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 's poem Singhasan Khaali Karo Ke Janata Aaati Hai. [29] Narayan was detained at Chandigarh; he asked for one month parole to mobilise relief in flooded parts of Bihar. His health suddenly deteriorated on 24 October 1975, and ...
The Foundation for Democratic Reforms is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent research institution founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, an Indian Administrative Service officer turned politician and a political activist based in Hyderabad. [1]
Lok Satta is a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in the country of India, [1] led by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a former I. A. S. officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh, India. The movement was started in 1996 with the founding of Lok Satta, a non-governmental organization. In 2006, the movement transformed into Lok Satta Party.
Jayaprakash Narayan was a Gandhian leader in India after independence. [3] When Indira Gandhi was found guilty of violating electoral laws by the Allahabad High Court, Narayan called for her to resign, and advocated a program of social transformation. He asked the military and police to disregard unconstitutional and immoral orders.
In ways that may be familiar to reformers today, government officials began to rethink incarceration policies toward addicts. Mandatory sentences fell out of favor, and a new federal law, the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, gave judges the discretion to divert a defendant into treatment.
Jayaprakash Narayan # Bihar: 1902-1979 Narayan was an independence activist and social reformer. He was commonly referred as "Loknayak" ("People's Leader") and is known for the Total Revolution Movement initiated during the mid-1970s against the then government of India. [160] Amartya Sen: West Bengal: 1933-
A man wanted for questioning in the death of a woman set ablaze on a subway train is seen in a combination of still images from surveillance video in New York City on Dec. 22, 2024.