Ram Manohar Lohia

Ram Manohar Lohia (23 March 1910 – 12 October 1967) was an acti vist in the Indian independence movement and a socialist political leader. During the last phase of British rule in India, he worked with the Congress Radio which was broadcast secretly from various places in Bombay until 1942. Lohia was one of the founde rs of the Congress Socialist Party and editor of its mouthpiece Congress Socialist. In 1936, he was selected by Jawaharlal Nehru as the Secretary of the Foreign Department of the All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C), the highest body of the Congress Party. In June 1940, he was arrested and sentenced to a jail term of two years for delivering anti -war speeches. Lohia became one of the leading figures of the Central Directorate, which clandestinely tried to organise the Quit India revolt, sparked by Mahatma Gandhi in August 1942. Captured in May 1944, he was incarcerated and tortured in Lahore Fort. As one of the last high security prisoners, Lohia, together with Jayaprakash Narayan, was finally released on 11 April, 1946. As a member of the Congress Socialist Party, Lohia joined it when he left Congress. He remained a member of the Socialist Party when it got merged with Kisan Majdoor Praja Party in 1952 and later he formed the Praja Socialist Party. Lohia lost to Nehru in 1962 general election, but entered Lok Sabha in 1963 by winning a by-poll. In 1963 Lohia became a member of the Lok Sabha after a by-election in Farrukhabad. Books written by Lohia: Guilty Men of India’s Partition; India, China, and Northern Frontiers; nterval During Politics; Marx, Gandhi and socialism.