Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave
and Jayprakash Narayan put forth
the idea of partyless democracy.
What has to be done to bring
such democracy in modern times?
Answers
Explanation:
In the history of the world, Mahatma Gandhi is one person who has changed the trend of violent revolution. He believed that good aim is achieved only by good means. The bad means can not give us a good result. If we want a good society then it is possible only through non-violence and truth. Through violence we can not achieve the aim of good society. Therefore, we can see all violent revolutions have not achieved the aim of social revolution, but it is possible by Gandhian thought. The Gandhian thought is very effective in the process of social reconstruction.
The sarvodaya, non-violence, truth, spiritualism, creative work and gram swaraj are the main components of Gandhian thought. The Gandhian thought attracted the attention of many thinkers. One among them was Jayaprakash Narayan. Jayaprakash Narayan used Gandhian thought for social reconstruction after independence of India. Actually the philosophy of Jayaprakash Narayan is the result of the effect of Gandhian thought on him. Jayaprakash Narayan was a freedom fighter, social worker and great socialist thinker of India. His ideology changed from time to time in positive direction. He gave major contribution in social reconstruction. He was linked with Bhoodan, gramdan movement.1 In 1974, he gave a concept of Total Revolution to change the corrupt, autocratic and rotten system.2 He was one of those persons who worked on the way of Gandhian thoughts. Before the independence of India, he was influenced by Marxism but after independence he understood the depth of the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and accepted it. He tried to complete the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and the aim of Gandhi ji’s Loksevak Sangh.
Socialism to Sarvodaya – Sarvodaya is a term meaning ‘universal uplift’ or ‘progress of all’. The term was first coined by Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin’s work on political economy, ‘unto this last’ and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy3.
Sarvodaya is the main concept of Gandhian thought. Mahatma Gandhi gave the philosophy of Sarvodaya as a module of development for human society. Jayaprakash Narayan also accepted the Sarvodaya philosophy for social reconstruction after independence of India. But, before independence of India, he was the strong follower of Marxism. He believed that Marxism is better than Gandhism. He said, “Freedom still remained the unchanging goal, but the Marxism as a science of revolution seemed to offer a sure and quicker road to it than Gandhi’s technique of civil disobedience and noncooperation.