The Janata Party
is a child of the most epoch-making stuggle in the
history of Indian democracy. In March 1977 the people
of India, under the inspiring leadership of Jayaprakash
Narayanan, elected the Janata
Party to power and entrusted it with the
task of restoring democracy and freedom to the people
and constructing an egalitarian and decentralised
social order based on the Gandhian perspective.
In this perspective political and economic tasks
involve a common, approach, that of providing the
people themselves, above all to the poor and deprived
among them, both the opportunity and the power to
shape their own lives and destiny.