BIHAR A DREAM TURNED SOUR -A CASE OF LEADERSHIP FAILURE PART -1
WANTED LEADERS FOR BIHAR DESPERATELY Bihar has been known to be a laboratory of social re-engineering in the modern Indian history. The burning desire of people to correct what is wrong was reflective in the immense support received by Gandhi during his maiden foray in the state of affairs of his countrymen in the form of the Indigo Satyagraha. The name of Rajkumar Shukla might be lost in the immense numbers who have dotted the freedom movement but for the audience, he was the man who requested Gandhi to show the way to his fellow sufferers in Champaran and ignited the concept of Satyagrha along with his Kheda counterparts from 1914. Post-Independence the State was led by mass leaders like SK Sinha and AN Sinha but in the 60's it fell victim to the autocratic whims off the central leadership which could only be shaken by a mass movement. This movement on the lines of the Navnirman Movement (1974) of Gujarat was the Sampoorna Kranti movement spearheaded by Jayprakash