PM Modi paid tributes to Lok Nayak JP Narayan

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has paid tributes to socialist leader and freedom fighter Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary.

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Key-Points

Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, affectionately called Nanaji Deshmukh (1916 – 2010) was a social activist and political leader.

Nanaji Deshmukh was a long-time RSS member and a founding member of the Jan Sangh. He later became a part of the Janata Party and Bharatiya Janata Party.

He was considered one of the architects of the Jai Prakash Narain movement against Emergency in 1974, and was also instrumental in the formation of Janata Party government in 1977.

He was a member of the sixth Lok Sabha between 1977 and 1979, and nominated to Rajya Sabha by the then NDA government in 1999.

As a social activist, he worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance esp. in around 500 villages in Chitrakoot.

He set up the Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya in Madhya Pradesh, which is considered the country’s first rural university.

He started a chain of Saraswati Vidya Mandir schools throughout India.

He was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1999 and was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2019.