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PANDIT DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA 104TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY 2020

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya: On the 104th birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Prime Minister addressing the BJP workers on 25 September, 2020. He was born on 25 September, 1916. He was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) thinker and co-founder of the , the forerun- ner of the . His philosophy of Integral Humanism and Antyodaya has been a source of in- spiration for all and will continue to guide the nation in the times to come. On 25 September, 1916, he was born in the village Chandrabhan, now known as Deendayal Dham, near the Farah town in District. His father's name was Bhagwati Prasad and he was an astrologer. The mother's name was Rampyari. When he was eight years old, his both parents died and he was brought up by his maternal uncle. Under the guardianship of his maternal uncle and aunt he did his education and went to high school in where he completed matriculation. He did his intermediate from Birla College in Pilani, B. A from Sanatan Dharma College, in 1939. To pursue a master's degree in English literature he joined St.John's College, but not able to complete it. From 1942, he started full-time work in the RSS and became a lifelong Pracharak. In the 1940s he started the monthly Rashtriya Dharma from for spread- ing the ideology of nationalism. Later, he also started Panchjanya and daily Swadesh. He became the first General Secretary of the branch of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh when it was founded in 1951. Thereafter, he was ap- pointed its All- General Secretary. For 15 years, he remained the outfit’s general secretary. Email : [email protected] 1 www.csbias.com CSB IAS ACADEMY Contact us: 9966436875 He developed the concept of 'Integral Humanism' which advocated the holistic development of the mind, body, intellect, and soul, of every individual. He was convinced that as an independent nation, India could not rely upon Western concepts including individualism, democracy, socialism, communism, or capitalism. He always focuses that the Indian intellect was getting suffocated by Western theories. He welcomed modern technology but as per the Indian requirements. He always believed in Swaraj that is self-governance. He was elected the president of the Jana Sangh in December 1967. On 11 February, 1968, he was murdered under mysterious circumstances while travelling. His body was found near Mughalsarai railway station in Uttar Pradesh. Some of his literary works include the play "" and a trans- lation of a biography of Dr. K.B. Hedgewar, which was originally written in Marathi. He also composed a biography of Adi Shankara (Shankaracharya), the 9th-century Hindu reformer. His legacy is very much alive in India today in the form of the ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party which emerged from the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Several institutions in recognition of his leadership have been named after him like the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital in West Delhi; the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University, in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh; and the Pandit Deen Dayal Petroleum University, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

“Western Science and Western Ways of life are two different things. Whereas Western Science is Universal and must be absorbed by us if we wish to go for- ward, the same is not true about the Western Ways of life and values." "Here in Bharat, we have placed before ourselves the ideal of the fourfold respon- sibilities of catering to the needs of Body, Mind, Intellect, and Soul with a view to achieve the integrated progress of Man."

No doubt, he dedicated his life to social causes and the Bharatiya Jana Sangh Party. He never married but several young party workers looked him as an inspi- rational father-figure during his lifetime.

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