DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA

Sept. 29, 2019

Nation paid homage to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary.

About:

  • Deendayal Upadhyaya (1916 – 1968) was an Indian thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party. He became president of the Jana Sangh in 1967.

  • Integral humanism was a set of concepts drafted by Upadhyaya as political program and adopted in 1965 as the official doctrine of the Jan Sangh.

  • Since 2016 the NDA government has named several public institutions after him.