 Organized rationalist associations came up in each and every State and each of the State units got affiliated to IRA as parent body of rationalists and atheists in the country.Jyothi Shankar dedicated his work for more than three decades to build IRA as a powerful movement to spread scientific attitude and to live life freed from superstitious belief.He left for Canada on domestic and personal grounds around the time that Joseph Edamaruku (a staunch rationalist activist and writer of atheist literature) was made one of the Vice-Presidents of IRA.