SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 11 of 99

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Which Indian political leader was called as Lok Nayak?

(a)Ram Manohar Lohia
(b)Jai Prakash Narayan
(c)Subhash Chandra Bose
(d)Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Lok Nayak, leader of the people, is the title carried by Jai Prakash Narayan, the socialist who led the Bihar agitation of 1974 and called for Sampoorna Kranti, total revolution.

That movement became the rallying point of the opposition to the Emergency, and he was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1999.

Each of the other three leaders is remembered by a different epithet, so the title fits none of them. Option (b) is the one that carries it.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Ram Manohar Lohia — Ram Manohar Lohia belonged to the same socialist tradition and opposed the Congress as fiercely, but he is remembered by his name rather than by the title Lok Nayak.
(c)
Subhash Chandra Bose — Subhas Chandra Bose is Netaji. That is the epithet fixed to him in Indian memory, and it is not interchangeable with Lok Nayak.
(d)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak — Bal Gangadhar Tilak is Lokmanya, accepted by the people. The two titles share their first syllable, which is exactly why he is offered here.

Concept

Indian leaders are widely known by epithets, and SSC tests the pairing rather than the biography.

Jai Prakash Narayan — the stem's spelling — began in the Congress Socialist Party, moved to Sarvodaya and Bhoodan work with Vinoba Bhave, and returned to public life in 1974 to lead a student-driven agitation in Bihar against corruption and misgovernment.

His call for Sampoorna Kranti widened it into a national opposition movement, and his arrest was among the first acts of the Emergency declared in June 1975.

Key facts

Jai Prakash Narayan is known as Lok Nayak and led the Bihar movement of 1974.
His call for Sampoorna Kranti, or total revolution, gave that movement its slogan.
He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1999.
Lokmanya is the title of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, not of Jai Prakash Narayan.

Study next

Epithets and the leaders they belong to, from Netaji to DeenbandhuThe JP movement and the Emergency of 1975 to 1977Bharat Ratna awards conferred posthumously

Common traps

Ticking Bal Gangadhar Tilak because Lokmanya and Lok Nayak sound alike.
Assuming any socialist leader of the period carried the same title.

The honorific often sits inside the stem rather than being asked outright, as at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.6, which names Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak while asking about the Home Rule League. Reading the epithet is frequently half the answer.

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