Tributes to JP

Mr. V. R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court, writes:

The cause for peace and human safety, with a socialistic turn and dimension of total Revolution, was launched by Jayaprakash Narayan, that lofty idealist and perennial fighter for causes of Sarvodaya and human liberation from Emergency repression. I had known him, visited him, heard him and admired him. He was a human being for whom all causes that affect adversely any human being or social collective was never alien at all. The finest phase of his life came when he battled for the delivarance of Indian humanity from the grave affliction of Emergency when the constitutional rights of the people were put to sleep with the approval of the Supreme Court itself. He won the war as the top echelon of the struggle and people became free once again. This great tribute to Jayaprakash Narayan for having successfully organised the restoration of swaraj in its plenitude is the richest that he deserves from the nation. However, there is a poignant dimension to his great achievement. He died of a disease which dialysis could not save. More than that, his triumphant march towards total revolution has not only been halted but reversed by leaders and parties who have governed India in coalition and in succession since 1991. The spirit of Jayaprakash summons us to a new struggle to redeem our tryst with destiny and break away from neo-imperialism enslaving us with protean and tantalising promises and mirages. Let us to the task.

Today, more than ever before, to our shock and shame, our country is in the grip of a surrender syndrome, hungry for dollar and dime and neglecting the vast masses in deep indigence and the Dalits and Adivasis in despair. The struggle to make our governance free is the mandate of Jayaprakash from his grave.

A new danger: Terrorism everywhere, violence and treachery combined, a world war is threatening us all. At present, our duty is to fight two wars; the War against Terrorism and the terrorism by War.A mass mobilisation is the urgent demand on us all. Let us to thistask with the raging spirit of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan!

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