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    Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader known as "JP" or "Lok Nayak", which means "The People's Leader". He led the opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, calling for her overthrow and a "total revolution". JP received India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1999 for his social work.

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    Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader known as "JP" or "Lok Nayak", which means "The People's Leader". He led the opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, calling for her overthrow and a "total revolution". JP received India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1999 for his social work.

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    Jayaprakash Narayan ( listen (help·info); 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), popularly referred to as

    JP or Lok Nayak (Hindi for The People's Leader), was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist
    and political leader. He is also known as the "Hero of Quit India Movement" and he is remembered for
    leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he had called
    for a "total revolution". His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by his nationalist friend and an eminent
    writer of Hindi literature, Rambriksh Benipuri. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna,
    India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social work. Other awards include the Magsaysay
    award for Public Service in 1965.

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