Ballia (UP), Oct 11 (PTI) Socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as “Loknayak” and the architect of the “Sampoorn Kranti” movement, was remembered on his 124th birth anniversary at his ancestral village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia on Sunday.
A programme was organised by the Jai Prakash Narayan Pratishthan at Jayaprakash Nagar (Sitabdiara), located on the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar border in Ballia district.
School students took out a morning procession, followed by a lecture series commemorating the veteran leader.
Addressing the gathering, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Neeraj Shekhar, son of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, alleged that attempts are being made to distort the history of Jayaprakash Narayan.
He said the socialist leader had himself stated that his family moved to Jayaprakash Nagar (Sitabdiara) after an epidemic broke out in Lala Ka Tola and that he was born in the present building of the trust.
Shekhar said Bihar was the centre of the veteran leader’s political activities, but his birthplace was Jayaprakash Nagar (Sitabdiara) in Ballia district.
Shekhar said he would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the issue. PTI COR ABN SMV
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