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No, I don't see a hard date in it, but a suggestive coincidence that Jayaprakash was born in Kalyanak (11-10-1902) in the same month Gandhi was born in Kalyanak, and Lohia died in Kalyanak (12-10-1967) too. . Jaiprakash Narayan and Rammanohar Lohia are the protagonists of Sun 42, and their tenacity against the Congress stalwarts, including Nehru-Patel, is something of an uproar. When Swaraj Sankranti lagolag Nehru-Patel bears the responsibility of state building, in response to the question of who should take the responsibility from outside the government, the names given to Gandhi are Jayprakash Agar Acharya Narendradev as the party president, then his suggestion for the post of chief minister is Lohia… All three socialists! However, Congress elites did not find these names acceptable. After the bitter experience of running an interim government with the League, Nehru and Patel, in a sense sidelining Gandhi, came to accept the inevitability of partition. JP and Lohia are the socialists who are responsible for protesting in the Congress meeting. Perhaps, Gandhi is feeling something away from Nehru-Patel and moving closer to JP-Lohia. During the People's Revolution of 1942, JP-Lohia tried to deploy the 'Azad Dasta' army in Nepal, which is obviously not the Gandhi way. However, through this experience, Gandhi's role in peaceful resistance has come to be understood in a special way. Nehru-Patel Adi is in state-building mode by the turn of the interim government. That is also the work of building Swaraj. But can Gandhi's Lokayan be released from that? As I am writing this, I am reminded that the Dakshinayan National Conference was held in Goa in November 2016. With the martyrdom of Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi and the spontaneous surge of the return of the award, a national mood began to emerge that sometimes Gandhi returned the 'Kaiser Hind' or Rabindranath would have seen protest to the extent of returning the knighthood. Marching from Rabindra Bhavan in Goa for the conference, we all arrived at a public meeting called Lohia Maidan: This was the ground where Lohia played the bungio for Goa's liberation from Portuguese rule on June 16, 1946. In fact, he was there, probably one of the two late 1942 POWs, for some comfort. In Lahore Jail, he and Jaiprakash experienced severe torture in addition to long imprisonment. Gandhi freed both of them by clashing relentlessly with the British regime. In Goa, Lohia found that it was okay to go through a police investigation to cover up a simple scandal, but a whole torture system was operating through a police force specially recruited from Mozambique. Bungio Bajyo and Lohia were caught. The interim government operating in New Delhi may have been a little embarrassed by this capture, but Gandhi wrote to Viceroy Wavell and commented in 'Harijan' that if Lohia was in jail in Goa, India's liberating conscience was also in jail. Self-proclaimed Abhista Lokayan, Gandhi was taking the young socialist leaders into the fold. It so happened that after being released, Lohia wandered around the Goa border bordering India for awareness and when he was preparing to enter Goa again, Gandhi called him to him and took him along in the peace mission of Bengal. On January 30, 1948, Gandhi spoke to Patel and left for prayers. Nehru was to come immediately after the prayer and returned with blood. The two encounters remained in the 'ifs' and 'thens' of history. However, what Gandhi hoped for Lohia's return, Lohia Abad became instrumental in the historic push for the civil rights movement of the Black (African-American) community in America under the leadership of Martin Luther King. When Lohia visited America in 1951, he visited the Highland Folk School in the Diocese of Tennessee. In the course of the summer school for black workers, he said, why is it possible that Gandhi does not have Thoreau, does not have civil disobedience? The curriculum improved in later years, and the Alabama bus sit-in in 1955 led to an activist student, Rosa Parks, refusing to vacate her seat for a white man. The responsibility of the committee formed for that fell on King. After a long satyagraha, the US Federal Court declared the black-white bus seating system unconstitutional. It was the beginning of King's nationwide movement. After Gandhi, who could have an answer, Lohia left early. But in 1974-77 Jayaprakash emerged as the answer to this question: Neither in Nehru-Patel – nor in Lohia-JP – Gandhi, you are an unlikely prospect.
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