Party will celebrate JP Narayan's birthday to make GenNext aware about emergency: BJP

New Delhi, Oct 10 (ANI): Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday that BJP would organise programs across the nation to celebrate the 113th birth anniversary of social activist Jayaprakash Narayan, adding that such an initiative has been taken to make the younger generation aware of JP and his Bihar Movement and call for Total Revolution. Naidu described the Emergency as a black period in the nation's history, and added that the current generation must know about it. JP Narayan was an independence activist, social reformer and political leader, remembered especially for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He opposed the emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and was jailed by the government