1. Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan from Janata Party was a Marxist of youth, who became a Gandhian and involved himself in a Bhoodan movement. 

2. He led Bihar movement and opposed the emergency. 

3. Bihar students invited him and he accepted on the condition of movement to be non-violent and not to limit only to Bihar territory. Hence, Bihar movement assumed a political character and national appeal. 

4. This movement demanded the dismissal of Congress government in Bihar and called for the total revolution in social, economic and political aspects to establish a total democracy. 

5. Bandhs, gheraos, strikes were organized in protest. Even employees of railways organized a strike which threatened to paralyze the country. 

6. In 1975, Janata Party-led people’s march to parliament to be one of the largest political rallies ever held in the capital. 

7. Janata was supported by non-Congress parties like BJS, socialist parties etc., which projected JP as an alternative to Indira Gandhi.