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4 days ago · Meanwhile, in May 1974, the socialist leader George Fernandes led an unprecedented strike of railway workers that paralysed the Indian Railways for three weeks. On June 5, during a speech in Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan, JP gave a call for “Sampoorna Kranti”, or total revolution.
4 days ago · Emergence of young leaders: The Emergency gave India a crop of young leaders (Lalu Prasad Yadav, George Fernandes, Arun Jaitley, Ram Vilas Paswan, etc) who would dominate politics for decades to come. Coming together of the social forces: This resulted in the increase of the representation of OBCs in Parliament.
1 day ago · Meanwhile, in Srinagar, General Officer Commanding, 15 Corps, Lt Gen. Kishan Pal tells the Unified Headquarters that “the situation was local and would be dealt with locally”. Based on this claim, defence minister George Fernandes tells the media that the infiltrators would be thrown out in 48 hours.
3 days ago · By then, the Indira Gandhi government had already arrested leading Opposition figures such as Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani; George Fernandes had managed to escape.
4 days ago · Meanwhile, in May 1974, the socialist leader George Fernandes led an unprecedented strike of railway workers that paralysed the Indian Railways for three weeks. On June 5, during a speech in Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan, JP gave a call for “Sampoorna Kranti”, or total revolution.
2 days ago · The veteran actor recalls calling George Fernandes, the then Defence Minister, and requesting him to let him be part of the Kargil war Nana Patekar and his still from the 1991 film Prahaar CE Features
3 days ago · He recalled how he approached George Fernandes, the then Defense Minister, expressing his wish to participate in the war.
