Editing Jayaprakash Narayan (section)

==Death==
In March 1979, while he was in the hospital, Narayan's death was [[List of premature obituaries|erroneously announced]] by the Indian prime minister [[Morarji Desai]], causing a wave of national mourning, including the suspension of parliament and regular radio broadcasting, and the closure of schools and shops. When he was told about the mistake a few weeks later, Narayan smiled.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/march-23-1979-forty-years-ago-jp-battles|title= Jayaprakash Narayan's death announced mistakenly|website=www.indianexpress.com|access-date=9 December 2019|date= 23 March 2019}}</ref> Narayan died in Patna, Bihar,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=India Today |first=Sunanda K. |last=Datta-Ray |url=http://indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/millennium/100people/narayan.html |title=Inconvenient Prophet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131114958/http://indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/millennium/100people/narayan.html |archive-date=31 January 2009 |access-date=6 January 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{not in source|reason=The source does not give the date of his death, just the year.|date=November 2023}}</ref> on 8 October 1979, three days before his 77th birthday, due to the effects of diabetes and heart disease.{{cn|date=November 2023}}