Jan Nayak Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
Socialist movement leader and freedom fighter Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia was born on 23 March 1910 in Akbarpur, Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. His father, Hiralal Lohia, was a follower of Gandhiji. It also influenced Ram Manohar Lohia. After completing his education in Varanasi and Kolkata, he went to Europe for higher education in 1929. n 1932 he received his doctorate in political philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Dr. Lohia (Ram Manohar Lohia) got the opportunity to study Marxist philosophy abroad, but he did not gravitate towards "communist" ideas and he returned to India as a "socialist". When Dr. Lohia returned to India in 1933, the freedom struggle was going on in the country under the leadership of Gandhiji. Dr. Lohia jumped into it with full force. He was among those who represented socialist ideas in the Congress. In 1934, he participated in the first session of the establishment of the “Congress Socialist Party” along with Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ashok Mehta etc.
When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the President of the Congress, he appointed Dr. Lohia (Ram Manohar Lohia) as the Secretary of the Foreign Department of the All India Congress Committee. At the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Lohia was arrested and released from jail in December 1941. He was in Mumbai when the "Quit India" resolution was adopted in 1942. He went underground and played a significant role in the movement's progress. Once he was arrested, he was freed along with Jayaprakash Narayan by the "Azad Dasta".
He was then imprisoned in Lahore in 1943. Upon his release, Dr. Lohia (Ram Manohar Lohia) led the Goa Liberation Movement in 1946. In 1948, Dr. Lohia, along with his socialist colleagues, broke away from the Congress. In 1952, he presided over the Socialist Conference. In 1963, he was elected to the Lok Sabha. Dr. Lohia's revolutionary spirit remained constant. He launched a movement to remove statues of the British, organised a convention to remove the British, and started the Ramayana fair in Chitrakoot.
He opposed the Muslim Personal Law. Even after independence, he was arrested seven times for various reasons. He opposed Nehru's policies in the Lok Sabha. Dr. Lohia (Ram Manohar Lohia) wrote several books. Notable among these are “Fragments of the World Mind”, “Marx, Gandhi and Socialism”, “Will to Power”, “China and Northern Frontier”, “Cycle of History” and “Language”. Dr. Lohia died on 12 October 1967 in a Delhi hospital after a prostate operation.
The only leader of human-moral/values ​​with alternative-change and struggle who was social, economic and political