{"id":412078,"date":"2024-01-23T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/bharat-ratna-awardee-karpoori-thakur-was-nitish-kumar-lalu-yadavs-mentor-5-facts\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:12:00","slug":"bharat-ratna-awardee-karpoori-thakur-was-nitish-kumar-lalu-yadavs-mentor-5-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/bharat-ratna-awardee-karpoori-thakur-was-nitish-kumar-lalu-yadavs-mentor-5-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Ratna Awardee Karpoori Thakur Was Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav&#8217;s Mentor: 5 Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bharat Ratna Awardee Karpoori Thakur Was Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav's Mentor: 5 Facts\" alt=\"Bharat Ratna Awardee Karpoori Thakur Was Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav's Mentor: 5 Facts\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-01\/84qbum7g_karpoori-thakur_625x300_23_January_24.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Karpoori Thakur was popularly known as &#8216;Jan Nayak&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFormer Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur will be awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on the eve of his birth anniversary. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a post, described the leader as a beacon of social justice. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"cheat__ttl\">5 Facts On Karpoori Thakur:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cheat-wrp\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Karpoori Thakur served as Chief Minister of Bihar twice in the 1970s &#8211; From December 1970 to June 1971 and from December 1977 to April 1979.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>He had been a mentor to many current generation leaders of the state, including Nitish Kumar and his ally Lalu Prasad Yadav, the RJD president.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>During his short stint as the Chief Minister, Karpoori Thakur imposed a total ban on alcohol in Bihar but this was resisted by Dalits whose employment was dependent on the toddy trade.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>He was popularly known as <em>Jan Nayak<\/em> (people&#8217;s leader) &#8211; someone who devoted his life to socially backward communities in Bihar.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>His tenure is also best remembered for implementation of the recommendations of Mungeri Lal Commission, whereby quotas for backward classes were introduced in the state, much before the 1990s&#8217; Mandal Commission changed the national political contours.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"cmt_btnOut\"><span class=\"cmt_btn\"><a class=\"btn_bm cmt-ac cmt-dn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/javascript:void(0);\"><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-cnt\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-txt\">Post a comment <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/bharat-ratna-awardee-karpoori-thakur-was-nitish-kumar-lalu-yadavs-mentor-5-facts-4918389\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Karpoori Thakur was popularly known as &#8216;Jan Nayak&#8217;. New Delhi: Former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur will be awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on the eve of his birth anniversary. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a post, described the leader as a beacon of social justice. 5 Facts On Karpoori Thakur: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":412079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[483478,483479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}