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This article is about the Indian politician . For the late Indian freedom fighter and politician, see Jayaprakash Narayan.
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan 
President, Lok Satta Party Member, Legislative Assembly, Andhra Pradesh, India Incumbent Assumed office
2009Constituency Kukatpally, Hyderabad, India Personal details Born 14 January 1956 Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan (Telugu: జయప్రకాశ్ నారయణ్ ; 1956 - ), widely known as JP, is a noted Indian politician, social reformer, TV commentator and columnist. He is the President of Lok Satta Party and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kukatpally constituency in Andhra Pradesh.[1] He is also a former Indian public administrator. He is well known for his role in bringing electoral reforms and for his columns on democracy in leading Indian daily newspapers.
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Early life
Nagabhairava Jayaprakash Narayan was born on Jan 14th, 1956 in Naghbir [Maharashtra] and came to Godavarru Village at the age of 3 yrs near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh to pursue his education in Telugu Medium .[citation needed] He joined Andhra Loyola College in 1969 for his intermediate education. He obtained his medical degree from Guntur Medical College.
Civil Service
Jayaprakash Narayan, a physician, joined public administration after making it to I.A.S. in 1980 standing among all India top 10. He worked on agriculture, irrigation, technology and youth rehabilitation projects in various capacities in various districts of Andhra Pradesh. He had an eventful 16-year-long career in the government. Some of his achievements include [2]:
- Rehabilitation of 8000 youth from displaced families of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
- Designed the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in Krishna, Prakasham and Godavari deltas. He successfully mobilized the farmers on a large scale to take up irrigation schemes to bring more than two lakh acres under irrigation.
- Strengthened the credit cooperatives by making them independent of government control.
- Served as a Secretary to both the Governor and The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. NT Ramarao.
He also has several major policy initiatives to his credit.
- Empowerment of parents in schools.
- Economic reforms and restructuring of AP.
- Development of the Infocity HITEC City (Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City) in Hyderabad to facilitate the growth of the software industry.
- Empowerment of local governments and stakeholders.
- Law for self-reliant cooperatives (1995).
Social Reforms
Dr. JP’s experience in government convinced him that the faulty governance process is the biggest hurdle in India’s path of progress. He resigned from the I.A.S in 1996, as he wanted to work on grass roots for good governance.[3][4] Jayaprakash Narayan, an optimistic individual, talks about the efficacy of reforms in the governance, Economy of Andhra Pradesh among several other issues on various platforms in educational and political institutes. He emphasizes that democracy is for the people, of the people and by the people. He has also written columns in Indian newspapers like Times of India, The Economic Times, Financial Express, The Hindu and Eenadu. He also worked as Television host for election coverage shows and political programs like "Pratidhwani".
Political and Administrative Reforms
Dr. JP has served on the following panels.
- The National Advisory Council (NAC) for the implementation of the National Common Minimum Programme (CMP), July 2004 through August 2006.
- Vigilance Advisory Council, constituted by the Central Vigilance Commission, November 2004
- Second Administrative Reforms Commission constituted by the Government of India in September 2005
Foundation For Democratic Reforms
Dr. JP is the founder member of Foundation For Democratic Reforms (FDR) and currently serves as its general secretary. FDR is one of India's leading think-tanks and research-resource centers for formulating and promoting fundamental reforms in political, electoral and governance spheres and in critical areas of state policy.
Lok Satta Movement
Lok Satta Movement
Main article: Lok Satta MovementJayaprakash Narayan started Lok Satta Movement (means people power) in 1997 to educate citizens of India about voting, rights and government. Lok Satta, a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in India, worked on various activities[2] like election reforms, police reforms, right to information act and voter registration procedures. The movement initially started in Andhra Pradesh and later spread across the country, including Mumbai and the Vote JUHU campaigns.[5]
Lok Satta is in the forefront of key initiatives like disclosure of candidate wealth and criminal history details, political funding reform, decriminalization of politics, improvement of electoral registration, comprehensive judicial reforms including local courts, and national judicial commission and citizen's charters.
Political career
He started the Lok Satta party in 2006 with clean politics and good governance and improvement of India as the main agenda. While launching the political party, he stated that this party aimed to enrich the political scenario in India with its true spirit and felt that it would be considered as an alternative to any other political party, since it aimed to create a true and faithful political picture in India with out involving illegitimate money, liquor and caste in elections.
2008 Byelections
Lok Satta Party contested in 2008 in the Assembly by-elections for the first time, and was able to secure second place in two of the four places (Khairatabad, Terlam) it contested from.[6]
2009 Elections
Lok Satta Party contested again in the 234 Legislative Assembly seats in 2009 general elections. He toured Andhra Pradesh in trains similar to the way freedom fighters traveled to reach people. Jayaprakash Narayan himself contested from Kukatpally, and won with 15,000 votes majority over the nearest opponent. His victory is quoted as "the victory of people" as he won the election without distributing money or liquor.
Lok Satta PartyAndhra Pradesh 13th Assembly
Jayaprakash Narayan is one of the vocal leaders in assembly proceedings. Some of the major contributions to Andhra Pradesh 13th assembly are:
- Proposed the Anti Corruption Bill to amend the State's Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, to curb corruption in the state by including elected members under civil servants.[7]
- Advanced all party resolution to elect deputy speaker from opposition.
- Opposed amendment to Andhra Pradesh Societies Act claiming that it is against the right to form unions as per the Constitution.[8]
- Opposed populist schemes in 2009, 2010,[9][10] and 2011[11] Andhra Pradesh Budgets.
- Pressed the need for gas grid and industrial development.
- Condemned the demolition of statues on Tankbund.[12]
- Demanded investigation into land and natural resource allocation scams and provided evidences.[13]
Attack in the Assembly premises by TRS activists
On 18th February 2011, Jayaprakash Narayan was attacked by members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on the assembly premises after he gave a media interview highlighting the degrading democratic values in the state assembly in the context of attack on the state governer E. S. L. Narasimhan inside the state assembly.[14] After the end of the interview, JP was attacked by TRS activists. TRS leaders K. T. Rama Rao, T. Harish Rao and D. Vinay Bhaskar instigated the attack. TRS continues to defend its actions, while all political parties cutting across the party lines have condemned the attack.
Development of Kukatpally constituency
Dr. JP tours the Constituency every Saturday to get a first hand look at people's problems in the constituency and meets people at IMAX gardens, Road No.4 to listen to their problems. The following are activities undertaken by him.[15]
Traffic
- The construction of the under rail bridge in Safdarnagar, which has been neglected for several months has been completed.
- New roads in phase 9 of Kukatpally Housing Board.
- Road expansion works in Kukatpally phase 1.
- Footover bridges on proposal are sanctioned at 5 different locations at JNTU Junction, Kukatpally Village Bus Stop, Moosapet Junction, Balanagar area and Begumpet in Kukatpally Constituency.
- Road from Moosapet ‘Y’ Junction to Miyapur on NH-9 is proposed for widening and providing the service roads from both left & right sides to control heavy traffic on this route.
Water
- Collected 99 samples of drinking water and showed it to water-board authorities, that the chlorine levels are not appropriate and directed them to take actions.
- 300 m pipeline construction in Moosapet division for Manjeera water supply. Another 400 m pipeline construction to make use of the neglected overhead tank.
- Installed 20 bore wells in the water deprived areas of the Constituency.
- pipeline construction from Vasantnagar to Bhagat Singh nagar, to regulate drainage problems in the rainy season, has been completed.
- Booster pumps in Satyanarayana Swamy colony, Parvatnagar, Motinagar divisions to complement the irregular drinking water-supply that has been there for several years.
- Kukatpally circle receives only 9 mgd water (5% of the city) even though it has 56000 water connections (10% of the city). Arrangements have been proposed to supply at least 16 mgd water.
Amenities
- Street lighting between Vasanth Nagar/Satyanarayana Colony and highway.
- Resumed swimming pool and indoor stadium works at Kukatpally Phase 6.
- Organized free medical clinics in the constituency to diagnose eye and thyroid problems among people to provide better medical facilities. Organized a free medical camp in Balanagar colony with the help of expert doctors and distributed free medicines.
- Establishment of Citizen Help Centers to help Citizens in Government and Municipality works.
- Moving HUDA truck park from Kukatpally to Miyapur and construct an auditorium for cultural and entertainment programs and a commercial center in its place.
- Construction of Sulabh complexes in densely populated places.
Drainage
- Underground drainage system: Works worth Rs. 4.4 crore have been started in 11 colonies/bastis. This helps 2 lakh people and prevents the mixing of sewage and water supply. Will be completed by Dec 31, 2009.
- To construct 6 sewerage treatment plants near ponds/lakes and to fence the ponds/lakes to prevent illegal occupation.
Personal life
JP is currently married to Radha who is said to be a Lawyer. They have two children, a son and a daughter.
See also
- Lok Satta Party
- Lok Satta Movement
References
- ^ http://www.loksatta.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87&Itemid=60
- ^ a b http://www.arc.gov.in/jp.htm
- ^ http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/28/stories/2009032855451500.htm
- ^ http://www.reachouthyderabad.com/newsmaker/nm81.htm
- ^ http://www.votemumbai.org
- ^ http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/24/stories/2009032457370200.htm
- ^ www.loksatta.org/cms/documents/advocacy/corruption.pdf
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYdW5Oq2eg
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYW5BEEZquA
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iViJYiKkYxE
- ^ http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-154116.html
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnKEjm_V9xs
- ^ http://www.fullhyderabad.com/hyderabad-news/conduct-jlc-probe-into-land-allotment-scam-lsp-tells-government-4017
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA56inA_MxU
- ^ http://kukatpallynow.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:high-level-details-of-development-activites-in-kp-from-june-2009&catid=36:recentactivitys&Itemid=43
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