#Raj Narain #Socialist Party

Political leader #Raj_Narain

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Raj Narain (23 November 1917 – 31 December 1986) was freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which led to her disqualification and imposition of Emergency in India in 1975. The case "Raj Narain vs Smt. Indira Nehru Gandhi" in Allahabad High Court owed to the disqualification of Indira Gandhi as an MP on June 12, 1975, which would go on to radically change the course of India's politics. He defeated Indira Gandhi during the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.

 •Congress Socialist Party (CSP), 1934–48.

Inspector of Congress Socialist Party, 1946. District Secretary, Congress Socialist Party (SP), 1946.

•Member Socialist Party (SP), 1948–52.

Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Socialist Party (SP), 1948–51. Convener, ‘Janvani Diwas’ of Socialist Party in Delhi, on 9 June 1951.

•Member Praja Socialist Party (PSP), 1952–1955.

Member National Executive, PSP, 1954–55.

•Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and First Leader of Opposition, 1952–1962.

Member Socialist Party, 1956–64. (From 1 January 1956 to 9 June 1964) Chairman, Socialist Party, 1961–64.

Joined Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) after the merger of PSP and SP.

•Member Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), 1964–72. (9 June 1964 to 12, April 1972)

•General Secretary Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), 1964–66.

•Member Rajya Sabha, 1966–72. (For SSP)

•Member Socialist Party, 1971–72. (After the merger of PSP & SSP)

Revived Socialist Party (Lohia), in 1972 and was its Member, 1972–74. Merged SSP (Lohia) into BKD in 1974 and formed Bhartiya Lok Dal

•Member Bhartiya Lok Dal (BLD), 1974–77

•Member Rajya Sabha, 1974–77 (As BLD Candidate)

•Formed Janata Party in 1977 after the merger of BLD, Bhartiya Jana sangh, Congress (O), Socialist Party and Congress for Democracy (CFD)

•Member Janata Party, 1977–79,

Member 6th Lok Sabha, 1977–79. (Defeated Indira Gandhi in 1977)

Member Union Cabinet as Health & Family Welfare Minister. (1977–78), removed from Union Cabinet in January 1979 and later on resigned from Janata Party in 1979. *Formed Janata Party (S) as its President and later as ChairmanJoined Democratic Socialist Party, 1981–83 (With H. N. Bahuguna).

•Joined Janata Party, 1983–84. With Chandra Shekhar.

Contested against former Prime Minister Charan Singh, in 1984 Lok Sabha elections from Baghpat (U.P.). Formed Socialist Party in 1985, and was associated with this party till his death in 1986.

Raj Narain published Janmukh, a weekly from Varanasi and has been on the editorial board of ‘Jan’ a monthly established by Dr Rammanohar Lohia. Narain has a very closed friendship with Anantram Jaiswal they went together to the same jail during an emergency act and in Lucknow, he mostly lives in Jaiswal's house.

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15-4-2023.