Bihar Movement

[3] When the Nav Nirman movement resulted in the forced resignation of the Gujarat government, student protests had already begun in Bihar.

Unlike the Nav Nirman movement, political student outfits like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) connected with the Jana Sangh, Samajwadi Yuvajan Sabha (SYS) connected with Samajwadi Party, and Lok Dal took an active role in the JP movement.

This resulted in police firing on strikers in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, causing the deaths of eight students on 17 August 1973 owing to their participation in the JP Movement.

[3] They blocked all roads to the assembly and damaged government properties, including the telephone exchange and the residence of former education minister Ramanand Singh, which was set on fire.

[3] Meanwhile, JP visited Gujarat to witness the Nav Nirman movement on 11 February and declared his intention to lead on 30 March 1974.

[3] JP went to Delhi and attended a conference of Citizens for Democracy, an organization demanding civil rights, held on 13 and 14 April.

[3] On 5 June, he told people at a Patna rally to organize a protest at the Bihar Legislative Assembly, which resulted in the arrest of 1,600 agitators and 65 student leaders by 1 July 1974.

Indira Gandhi did not change the Chief Minister of Bihar, Abdul Ghafoor, because she did not want to give in to protestors' calls for the dissolution of the assembly as she did in Gujarat.

The same day(12 June 1975), the Allahabad High Court declared Indira Gandhi's election to the Lok Sabha in 1971 void on grounds of electoral malpractice.

JP was held in custody at Chandigarh even after he had asked for a month's parole for mobilising relief in areas of Bihar gravely affected by flooding.

His health suddenly deteriorated on 24 October, and he was released on 12 November; diagnosis at Jaslok Hospital, Bombay, revealed kidney failure; he would be on dialysis for the rest of his life.

Considered to be an election of newcomers, a huge crowd of youth activists and leaders used to gather[5] before the residence of the Bihar Janta party president Satyendra Narayan Sinha.

[1] On 17 February 2002, Sampoorna Kranti Express, named in recognition of the Bihar Movement, started its service between Rajendra Nagar Terminal in Patna and New Delhi.