Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 11 paid tribute to Jayaprakash Narayan, the hero of the anti-emergency movement, on his birth anniversary, saying his selfless service will always inspire people.
Mr. Modi lauded Narayan, fondly called JP and also a noted freedom fighter, as the pioneer of "total revolution", a slogan he coined to mobilise the masses against the then Indira Gandhi government, which imposed the Emergency in 1975.
He strived his whole life to strengthen Indian democracy, the Prime Minister said in a post in Hindi on X.
