Background
Lala Jagat Narain, a Chopra Khatri and Congress Party leader, was born at Wazirabad, Gujranwala District (now in Pakistan) in 1899.
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He graduated from Doctorate.A.V. College, Lahore in 1919, and joined the Law College, Lahore.
Career
He left his studies in 1920at the call of Mahatma Gandhi to join the non-co-operation movement. He was sentenced in two and a half years imprisonment, in jail he acted as Lala Lajpat Rai"s Personal Secretary. In 1924 he became the editor of Bhai Parmanand"s Weekly Hindi Paper Akashvani.
He participated in all the Satyagraha movement and was in jail for about nine years on different occasions.
Narain had come to Jalandhar as a refugee from Lahore and started an Urdu daily, Hind Samachar in 1948. Urdu then was the language of the salaried urban men of Punjab, the people who could afford the time and money for a newspaper.
But Urdu in independent India lacked government support. In the schools of Punjab, Punjabi and Hindi became the languages and Gurmukhi and Devanagari the scripts of instruction.
In 1965, Jagat Narain founded Punjab Kesari, a Hindi daily.
Narain, an Arya Samaji, was a prominent critic of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Congress Party leader. Dilbir Singh, the Public Relations Advisor at Guru Nanak Development University, claimed that Bhindranwale was responsible for his killing of Jagat Narain. However, no evidence was found against him.
The White Paper issued by the government of India, mentioned that Narain was assassinated because of his criticism of Bhindrawale.
He was present during the clash that occurred between Nirankaris and Akhand Kirtni Jatha Members, and stood witness at the Karnal Trial against Bhindrawale. The Nirankaris were acquitted by court on grounds of self-defence.
He was shot dead on 9 September 1981, near Amaltas Motel on the national highway while returning to Jalandhar from Patiala. Both the Government and Surjeet Jalandhari, project the murder as the murder of a person deeply involved in investigating criminal cases in Punjab.
In 1981, Bhindranwale barricaded himself inside the fortified Gurudwara Gurdarshan Parkash at Mehta Chowk, but was persuaded to surrender on 20 September 1981.
Foreign 25 days, violence exploded all over Punjab, while Bhindranwale was jailed in Circuit House. India"s then Home Minister, Giani Zail Singh, announced to Parliament that there was no evidence that Bhindranwale was involved in Lala Jagat Narain"s assassination, and was released on 15 October 1981. A chair in the name of Narain was established at Kurukshetra University in 1998
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Achievements
Membership
Narain was President of the Lahore City Congress Committee for seven years, leader of the Congress Party in the Lahore Corporation, a member of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee for more than thirty years and member of the All-India Congress Committee for about 30 years.
