Shivanjali Shadow | Patna11 hours ago
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Bihar…a state whose land has given birth to innumerable agitations and rallies. This is the reason why the land here is called the mother of the movement. Be it Mahatma Gandhi’s movement against the British from Champaran or Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan’s movement against Emergency. Both were born from this land. These movements had shaken the foundation of power at that time. After this a series of movements started. In these, former Chief Minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s poor rally is discussed even today.
In fact, a meeting of opposition unity is going to be held in Patna on 23rd June. There will be a gathering of leaders of non-BJP parties and a new political strategy will be discussed to remove Modi from power. Today, in this special story of Dainik Bhaskar, we will tell that the campaign to remove Modi from the land from where the slogan of ‘Indira Hatao’ was once raised, is now going on. Know about the revolutionary movements in the history of Bihar which have left a deep impact on the politics of the country.
Opposition unity meeting led by Nitish and Tejashwi.
The first wave of Satyagraha started in the country from Champaran
On 10 April 1917, Mahatma Gandhi stepped on the land of Bihar. What a revolution this step of his was going to bring. Perhaps even Gandhiji himself was not aware of this. When the train reached Patna, Champaran’s farmer leader Rajkumar Shukla took him straight to the house of the first President Dr. Rajendra Prasad. He left for Muzaffarpur in the evening of 10th April itself.
There was a public discontent among the farmers towards the cultivation of indigo in Bihar. Due to the increasing demand for indigo after the Industrial Revolution in the West, the British government started pressuring Indian farmers to cultivate indigo. Farmers did not have the freedom to grow crops of their choice on their land.
The farmers also had to face atrocities from the landlords. Because of this a rebellion started against the cultivation of indigo in Champaran. Seeing the resentment against indigo cultivation, Raj Kumar Shukla persuaded Gandhiji to come to Champaran and work for the suffering farmers. When Gandhi ji came here, he started realizing that the indigo issue was serious.
Mahatma Gandhi had come to meet the farmers.
Mahatma Gandhi met farmers
Gandhiji met the farmers who had come. He started recording the statements of the farmers. Meanwhile, news started spreading that Gandhiji could be sent to jail on charges of treason, but Gandhiji continued his fight. Later all the cases against Gandhiji were dropped.
The officers were also forced to bow down. Big leaders started reaching Champaran. The indigo planters understood that if Gandhi stayed in Champaran, their business would end. Finally the decision was taken in favor of the farmers.
On March 4, 1918, the law was enacted and the miseries of more than 19 lakh farmers came to an end. It was from here that the first wave of Satyagraha started.
Jinnah targets Congress at Gandhi Maidan
Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressed a historic rally of the Muslim League against the Congress on 26-29 December 1938 at Gandhi Maidan itself. Jinnah’s voice echoed in the ground in the 26th annual session of the All India Muslim League. He explained the road map ahead for his party. During this, he targeted the Congress.
He said- As far as the public was concerned and as far as my dear young friends, the Muslim youth were concerned, they were all mesmerized by the lies of the Congress. The youth believed in their slogans and jumlebaazi. They fell straight into the trap. Jinnah had said in the speech that the pure and uneducated mind of the people became an easy prey for the Congress.
The whole revolution was started by JP from Patna itself.
Total revolution…which changed the country’s politics
On June 5, 1974, Jai Prakash Narayan gave the slogan of ‘Complete Revolution’ against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. By ‘complete revolution’, JP meant to see the most downtrodden person in the society at the pinnacle of power.
On one voice of JP, a crowd of more than five lakh people gathered in Gandhi Maidan. The participation of people in such a large number in this movement was a message against the Congress in the whole country. Somewhere the bugle had been rung to oust the Congress party from power.
Regarding this, a huge procession was taken out on the streets of the capital, which reached Gandhi Maidan via Bailey Road. People came from different districts of Bihar to listen to JP. After this, the voice that was raised against the government, its echo was heard in the whole country.
It can be said that this was the beginning of a new era of politics in the country. Don’t know how many big leaders were given birth to this movement. Be it Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi, Ravi Shankar Prasad or Lalu Yadav… all these are leaders who emerged from this movement.
Nitish, Lalu and Modi actively participated in the entire revolution
In 1973, students of an engineering college in Gujarat were protesting against issues like rising inflation, inequality, corruption, unemployment in the country. Its effect was also visible in Bihar. On March 18, 1974, the students’ movement started in Patna.
There was a lot of anger among the people against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her government. Then Jai Prakash Narayan decided to raise his voice against his authority. This started the whole revolution.
Today veteran leaders of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Sushil Kumar Modi, Ram Vilas Paswan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, etc. were part of the student Yuva Sangharsh Vahini, who actively participated in the entire revolution at that time.
Lalu sometimes hit the government with ‘lathi’ and sometimes gave ‘warning’
Lalu used to be in the limelight due to his speeches and rallies. Lalu Prasad, who had emerged as a prominent leader of the backward classes, held many rallies with interesting names between 1994 and 2004 at Gandhi Maidan and gathered huge crowds. He used to name his rallies in such a way that the people themselves used to get involved. In 1995, Lalu Prasad Yadav played the bugle against the government in the name of Garib Rally.
Whereas in the year 1997, when BJP and Nitish Kumar were fiercely targeting Lalu. Then BJP used to call Lalu Raj as Jungle Raj. After this Lalu had organized a big rally. Named – Mahagarib Rally.
The crowd that attended these rallies took the form of a norm. Apart from this, the lathi rally organized in 2003 on the call of Lalu Prasad was also very much discussed. Lalu had organized a lathi rally to strengthen his mass base. The people who came to this rally specially took part with sticks with them.
In the year 2007, Lalu organized a warning rally. Lalu was trying to unite his voters once again through this rally. This is because Lalu had lost his popularity somewhere between the Nitish-BJP alliance.
Through this rally, Lalu had given a message that he will not tolerate discrimination against Yadav and Muslim voters in Nitish Raj.
Modi’s Hunkar Rally and Bomb Blast
On October 27, 2013, the BJP called a Hunkar rally considering it as the conch shell for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. A huge crowd gathered in it and it was addressed by BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi himself. Then there were sudden serial bomb blasts in this rally, in which six people were killed. While more than 80 were injured.
This rally of Modi also became a memorable one, because Modi was the PM candidate at that time. Perhaps this was the first time that serial blasts took place at a rally of a prime ministerial candidate.