CM, NDA netas pay tribute to JP on Sampoorna Kranti Diwas
Patna: CM Nitish Kumar and other NDA netas on Thursday paid floral tributes to the statue of Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) near Gandhi Maidan to mark the Sampoorna Kranti Diwas (Total Revolution Day).
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JP had given a clarion call for total revolution in society on June 5, 1974, while addressing a big rally at Gandhi Maidan here. At the state function, the CM also interacted with those who had participated in the JP's movement.
State assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav, deputy CMs Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, as well as ministers, including Vijay Kumar Choudhary also paid tributes to the great leader.
JP was an eminent freedom fighter and among the founders of the Congress Socialist Party. He had also actively participated in the Quit India Movement, and in the post-Independence period, led the Sarvodaya movement, besides leading the 1974 students' stir against the then Congress and PM Indira Gandhi that ultimately led to the imposition of Emergency on June 25, 1975.
In their separate statements, state BJP chief Dilip Kumar Jaiswal and deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary also paid tributes to JP, besides taking a dig at RJD chief Lalu Prasad for aligning with the Congress.
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