Followers Celebrate 119th Birth Anniversary of #LoknayakJayPrakash

11 October 2021, Hazaribag: Today the members of Hazaribag District Lok Samiti, ’74 Chetna Manch and social workers have celebrated 119th birth anniversary of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan, who was a renowned freedom fighter, sarvodaya leader and pioneer of students’ movement in year 1974.

On this occasion under leadership of Mr. Swarup Chand Jain (senior advocate & agitator of ’74 movement), garlands have been offered upon photograph of JP put over grave site where his ashes buried.

Mr. S. C. Jain said about ’74 movement when after appeal from JP, students & youths have sacrificed everything to make a new system and it was like second freedom movement, he remembered. Mr. Jain has saluted JP for the movement which saved Indian democracy. Mr. Shamsher Alam valued social harmony during ’74 movement that mobilized the mass to think above caste, faith in favour of our nation-society and still we need that very unity.

Mr. Shankar Rana (Co-ordinator, Jharkhand State Lok Samiti) said that JP himself established Lok Samiti in 1979 that enables us to raise voice upon issues those affect common people and we demand for JP statue here by people & administration jointly. Dr. Vishwanath Azad was concerned about beautification of JP Grave Site and Mr. Krishnaram Thakur called for safety measures.

These followers of JP have visited Hazaribag Central Jail also where an attractive statue of JP has been erected already, they met Mr. Ail Kumar Prithwi the artist who made this statue and gifted him a book upon JP.