Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Indian Political Leader

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Indian Political Leader

Date of birth: 25^th September, 19016 and Date of death: 11^th February, 1968
He was an eminent political personality and a profound philosopher.  He was an organiser par excellence and a prominent leader of Jan Sangh who maintained the highest standards of personal integrity.  He has been the source of ideological guidance and moral inspiration for the Bharathiya Janatha Party since its inception.  His treatise on ‘integral humanism’ is a critique of both communism and capitalism, advocating a holistic alternative perspective for political action and statecraft consistent with the laws of creation and the universal needs of the human race.
Panditji passed his intermediate exams with distinction in Pilani and left for Kanpur to pursue his under graduation and joined the Snatan Dharma College.  At the instance of his friend Balwanth Mahashabde, he joined the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1937.  Later he moved for Agra where he joined with Nanaji Deshmukh and Bhau Jugade for RSS activities.  After that he worked full time for RSS and moved to Lakshmipur District of Uttar Pradesh as an organiser of RSS.  He established the publishing house ‘Rastra Dharma Prakashan’ in Lucknow and launched the monthly magazine ‘Rastra Dharma’ to propound the principles he held sacred.  Later, he launched the weekly ‘Panchajanya’ and the daily ‘Swadeshi’.
In 1950, Dr. Shyam Prasad Mukherjee, then Minister at the centre, opposed the Nehru- Liyaqat pact and resigned his Cabinet post and joined the opposition to build a common front of democratic forces.  Panditji organised a political convention in UP in 1951 and founded the state unit of the new party, Bharathya Jana Sangh.  Panditji was moving spirit and Dr. Mukherjee presided over the first All India Convention held on 21^st October, 1951.  In 1968, Panditji assumed the post of president in the Jana Sangh.
On February 11, 1968, panditji boarded the first- class coupe of the Sealdah- Pathankot Express from Lucknow, bound for Patna.  His body was found Lying parallel to the railway tracks outside Mughalserai station in the early hours of the morning.