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Explain the reasons for the student's movement of 1974 in Bihar and role played by Jaya Prakash Narain in this movement.

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In March 1974 students came together in Bihar to protest against rising prices, food scarcity, unemployment and corruption. After a point they invited Jaya Prakash Narayan (JP), who had given up active politics and was involved in social work, to lead the student movement. He accepted it on the condition that the movement will remain non-violent and will not limit itself to Bihar. Thus the students? movement assumed a political character and had national appeal. People from all walks of life now entered the movement.

Jaya Prakash Narayan demanded the dismissal of the Congress government in Bihar and gave a call for total revolution in the social, economic and political spheres in order to establish what he considered to be true democracy. A series of bandhs, gheraos and strikes were organized in protest against the Bihar government. The government, however, refused to resign. He was now supported by the non-Congress opposition parties like the Bhartiya Jana Sangh, the Congress (O), the Bharatiya Lok Dal, the Socialist Party and others.