Editing Jayaprakash Narayan (section)

==Emergency==
In 1975, [[Allahabad High Court]] found [[Indira Gandhi]] guilty of violating electoral laws.<ref name="A">{{cite web |title=Indian Emergency of 1975-77 |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ghosh20p/page1.html |accessdate=5 July 2009 |publisher=Mount Holyoke College |archive-date=19 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519080200/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ghosh20p/page1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="LOC">{{cite web |title=The Rise of Indira Gandhi |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+in0029) |accessdate=27 June 2009 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] Country Studies}}</ref><ref name="UK">{{cite web |author=Kuldip Singh |date=11 April 1995 |title=OBITUARY: Morarji Desai |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-morarji-desai-1615165.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-morarji-desai-1615165.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |accessdate=27 June 2009 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref name="ING">{{cite book |author=Katherine Frank |url=https://archive.org/details/indiralifeofindi00fran/page/371 |title=Indira: The Life Of Indira Nehru Gandhi |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-395-73097-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/indiralifeofindi00fran/page/371 371]}}</ref> Narayan called for Gandhi and the CMs to resign, and the military and police to disregard unconstitutional and immoral orders.{{cn|date=November 2023}} He advocated a program of social transformation, which he termed ''Sampoorna kraanti'' (total revolution).{{cn|date=November 2023}} Immediately afterwards, Gandhi proclaimed a national [[Indian Emergency|Emergency]] on the midnight of 25 June 1975.<ref name="KS">{{cite web |date=22 March 2008 |title=Justice Sinha, who set aside Indira Gandhi's election, dies at 87 |url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/aaJustice-Sinha-who-set-aside-Indira-Gandhis-election-dies-at-87/287227/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309151210/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/aaJustice-Sinha-who-set-aside-Indira-Gandhis-election-dies-at-87/287227/ |archive-date=9 March 2012 |access-date=5 July 2009 |publisher=[[The Indian Express]] }}</ref> Desai, opposition leaders, and dissenting members of Gandhi's own party were arrested that day.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Choudhary |first=Ratnadeep |date=10 April 2019 |title=Morarji Desai, the prime minister for whom time in PMO was 'tougher than prison' |url=https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/morarji-desai-the-prime-minister-for-whom-time-in-pmo-was-tougher-than-prison/218716/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>

Jayaprakash Narayan gathered a crowd of 100,000 people at [[Ramlila grounds]] and recited ''Rashtrakavi'' [[Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar']]{{'s}} poem ''Singhasan Khaali Karo Ke Janata Aaati Hai''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/05/16/stories/05162523.htm |title=Obligations of a lameduck |author=Harish Khare |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=16 May 2001 |access-date=2 January 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720063610/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/05/16/stories/05162523.htm |archive-date=20 July 2009 |author-link=Harish Khare}}</ref>

Narayan was detained at [[Chandigarh]]; he asked for one month of parole to mobilise relief in flooded parts of Bihar. His health suddenly deteriorated on 24 October 1975, and he was released on 12 November the same year.{{cn|date=November 2023}} At [[Jaslok Hospital]], Bombay, Narayan was diagnosed with kidney failure; he would be on [[kidney dialysis]] for the rest of his life.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In the UK, [[Surur Hoda]] launched "Free JP", a campaign for the release of Jayaprakash Narayan that was chaired by Nobel Peace Prize winner [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker|Philip Noel-Baker]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/30/guardianobituaries.india |title=Surur Hoda: Trade unionist who spread the message of Mahatma Gandhi |first=George |last=McRobie |date=30 June 2003 |access-date=6 January 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827035708/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/30/guardianobituaries.india |archive-date=27 August 2013 }}</ref>

On 18 January 1977, Indira Gandhi revoked the emergency and announced elections. The [[Janata Party]], a vehicle for the broad spectrum of the opposition to Gandhi, was formed under JP's guidance.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} The Janata Party was voted into power and became the first non-Congress party to form a central government.<ref>{{cite news |title=How non-BJP, non-Congress governments in India have fared in the past |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-non-bjp-non-congress-governments-india-have-fared-past-101864 |access-date=26 December 2019 |work=thenewsminute.com |date=16 May 2019}}</ref> In the [[1977 Indian presidential election]], Narayan was proposed as President of India by [[Janata Party]] leaders but he refused and [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]], then [[Speaker of the Lok Sabha]], became president.{{cn|date=November 2023}}