By A. G. NOORANI
Jayaprakash Narayan was truly India’s conscience keeper. He could be trusted to keep his head and listen to his own conscience when people lost their senses. The moral aspect was always uppermost in his mind. He was immune to the lure of public office and power. At times, though, JP could be highly emotional. But this was one figure of high stature one could reason and argue with and even contradict flatly without risking a loss of temper, quite unlike Jawaharlal Neh ru and lesser mortals like Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai.
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