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B'day Special: Remembering Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan (JP)

New Delhi: October 11, 2015  is Jayaprakash Narayan's 103rd birth anniversary. Narayan was a great freedom fighter and one of the most revered political leaders of independent India.Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian independence activist, social

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: October 11, 2015 12:37 IST

Jayaprakash Narayan

At the age of 9, Jayaprakash Narayan left his village to enroll in class 7 of the collegiate school at Patna. In 1918, he undertook the 'State Public Matriculation Examination' and won a District merit scholarship to Patna college.

At the age of 18, Jayaprakash Narayan was married to Braj Kishore Prasad's daughter Prabhavati Devi (14) in October 1920.

Once Narayan went to listen Maulana Abul Kalam Azad speech in Patna against the non-cooperation movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi. Jayaprakash Narayan got influenced by Maulana's call to give up English education. He took the Maulana's words to heart and left Patna College ahead of his examinations. He joined the Bihar Vidyapeeth, a college run by the Congress.

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