Bihar Movement

Bihar Movement
Bihar Movement
Date	18 March 1974 - 25 June 1975 (emergency)
Location	Bihar, India
Caused by	Corruption in public life
Goals	Dissolution of Bihar legislative assembly
Methods	Protest march, street protest, riot, hunger strike, strike
Resulted in	Did not succeed, emergency imposed
Parties
Lead figures
	Jayprakash Narayan Shyam Sunder Das Indira Gandhi, Abdul Ghafoor Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Karpuri Thakur

The Bihar movement, also known as the JP movement, was a political movement initiated by students in the Indian state of Bihar against misrule and corruption in the state government. in 1974. It was led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as JP. The movement later turned against Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government in the central government. It was also referred to as Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution Movement).

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