Jai Prakash Narayan memorial with eyes on polls

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday announced setting up a memorial for Gandhian socialist leader Jai Prakash Narayan, or JP, at his birthplace in Sitab Diara, Chhapra, Bihar. The decisions have been taken with an eye on the Bihar Assembly polls in October. The announcement on the memorial came on the eve of the 40 th anniversary of the proclamation of the Emergency in 1975.