Loksatta jayaprakash narayan biography of rory
Chapter 6 charts the career of Jayaprakash Narayan, a veteran of the Indian socialist movement who came to be given the moniker loknayak (“the.
He was born in Bihar in October and first became politically engaged during Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement in Unusually for Indians of his..
Jayaprakash Narayan: Fixing Governance with Reforms and Economic Freedom
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Jayaprakash Narayan
Profile: Jayaprakash Narayan is founder and president of Lok Satta Party.
He is an MLA from Andhra Pradesh. A former IAS officer, he was on the National Advisory Council for UPA-1, and was part of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2005) and Task Force for the National Rural Health Mission.
Disenchanted as we are with our politics and governance, it is hard for us to realise that we succeeded remarkably well in building a nation and democratic institutions.
We did not always fail. We gave ourselves a liberal, democratic and inclusive constitution; over 550 princely states were integrated into India with great ease and no bloodshed; our unmatched linguistic diversity has been accommodated with great sensitivity and wisdom by the linguistic re-organisation of states and a three-language formula; even in recent decades, our federalism m