The denizens of Hazaribagh paid homage to loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary. A large number of JP followers who had participated in 1974 agitation visited JP Central Jail and paid floral tribute to the loknayak in the room where JP was kept here during the freedom struggle movement.
later another program was held at Gandhi Smarak where denizens of the town and adjoining areas assembled in large numbers to pay respect to their most respected leader.
Advocate Dhan Kumar Jain, Advocate Swaroop Chand Jain, Ex-MlA Gautam Sagar Rana, Ashok Kumar Chourashiya, Arjun Yadav, Ashok Yadav, Surendra Sinha, Arvind Ji Sahay and others were in the group which visited the cell of JP Central Jail.