Jai Prakash Narayan joined the Indian National Congress in the year 1929.

Jai Prakash Narayan joined the Indian National Congress in the year 1929. He was a great freedom fighter and social worker and statesman. He was greatly influenced by Gandhiji's ideas. He actively participated in Civil Disobedience and Quit India Movement.
For which he was arrested and imprisoned by the British many times. He led the opposition in 1970 against Mrs. Indira Gandhi. He shook the government of Indira Gandhi through a movement called Sampoorna Kranti.
From the freedom struggle till the last moment of his life, he dedicated the country and the countrymen. Click for complete biography of Jai Prakash Narayan.

When he returned to India in 1929 after completing his education abroad, there was a clear influence of Karl Marx in his thoughts and outlook. On his return to India, he met many communist leaders in London and in India with whom he discussed a lot on the issues of India's independence and revolution. However, he did not support the views of the Indian communists who were against the struggle for independence of the National Congress. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1929 at the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru, after which he played an active role in the Indian independence movement.

Later, during the Quit India Movement of August 1942, other outstanding qualities of Jayaprakash Narayan came to the fore. When all the senior leaders were arrested, he along with Ram Manohar Lohia and Aruna Asaf Ali took charge of the ongoing movement. However, he too did not stay out of jail for long and soon he was subject to the Defense of India Rules, a protective confinement law that did not require a trial.