Jagdeo Prasad
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There have been many communist leaders in this country but none could fire the imagination of the people so much that the people could call any of them ‘{Lenin of Bihar}’.
Jagdeo Prasad was born on February 02, 1922 at Kurtha of Jehanabad district of Bihar to Raaskali Devi and Prayag Narain. He belonged to Kushwaha caste who are vegetable growers. The Kushwaha have richly contributed to the struggle for social justice and democracy. His father Prayag Narain was a middle school teacher. JP passed matric examination very late at the age of twenty three. He passed matric in the first division which brought cheer to the family and the village folk. However, his father died soon after. It is said that the village Brahmin priest who visited JP’s home blamed him for untimely death of his father. The Brahmin priest was of the view that JP had angered the God by not pursuing his caste occupation of cultivating vegetables and taking to study instead.The adolescent Jagdeo grew with rage against casteism.
He was a political visionary and theorist. In the heydays of anti-Congress politics of Ram Manohar Lohia he preferred Congress to Jansangh. He was the first leader to blend social justice politics with secularism. When Mandal got locked in a war with Kamandal in 1990, the legacy of Jagdeo Prasad got vindicated.
There have been many communist leaders in this country but none could fire the imagination of the people so much that the people could call any of them ‘Lenin’. Jagdeo Prasad was called ‘Lenin of Bihar’ even when he was alive. When he was killed BBC aired the news that ‘Bihar Lenin’ had been killed while a local Patna daily newspaper “Aryawart”, since closed and then owned by a Brahmin big landlord, carried the news that ‘the self-styled Lenin of Bihar killed’. Those were the stormy initial years of the Naxal movement. Jagdeo Prasad who never claimed himself a Communist, who openly branded Indian communist leaders as belonging to feudal class, who had conviction in parliamentary democracy, who rejected armed revolution, radicalized the politics of Bihar so much that the people began calling him ‘Lenin of Bihar’.