Rambahadur Rai is a eminent Hindi Journalist. Rai is the editor of Pratham Pravakta, a Hindi fortnightly news magazine published from Delhi. A former news editor of Jansatta newspaper, he is the author of Rahvari ke Sawal (on Chandrashekhar) and Manjil se Jyada Safar[1] (on V P Singh). A founder organiser of JP Movement, Ram bahadur Rai declined to walk into the corridors of power. Mr. Rai was a close associate of JP, Who actively participated in the student movement in Bihar in 1974. He was one of the 11-member Steering Committee that piloted the JP Movement. He was the second person to be jailed under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act,(MISA) (passed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1973,giving superpowers to law enforcement agencies, and repealed by the subsequent Janata Party Government in 1977). Later, during the heydays of the JP Movement, He was again jailed for eighteen months. Mr. Rai was the organising secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) during the 74,Bihar Movement.It is very important to know that he brought the hawala scam intolight.