Practicing Success
In the early half of the 1970s who organized a nationwide Satyagraha forcing Indira Gandhi to resign? |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Jayaprakash Narayan Jagjiwan ram Chaudhary Charan Singh |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
The movement was beginning to influence national politics. Jayaprakash Narayan wanted to spread the Bihar movement to other parts of the country. Alongside the agitation led by Jayaprakash Narayan, the employees of the Railways gave a call for a nationwide strike. This threatened to paralyse the country. In 1975, JP led a peoples’ march to the Parliament. This was one of the largest political rallies ever held in the capital. He was now supported by the non-Congress opposition parties like the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the Congress (O), the Bharatiya Lok Dal, the Socialist Party and others. These parties were projecting JP as an alternative to Indira Gandhi. |