Prime Minister recently unveiled a 72-ft statue of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya in New Delhi on his 107th birth anniversary.
About Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya:
- He was a politician, a teacher, a writer, who was born on September 25, 1916 in Nagla Chandraban, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.
Career:
- He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1942.
- He joined the Bhartiya Jana Sangh (1951) founded by Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, and became its president in 1967 (Calicut session).
Ideology:
- He drafted Jan Sangh’s official political doctrine by including cultural-nationalism values and Gandhian socialist principles like Sarvodaya (progress of all) and swadeshi (self-sufficiency).
- He visualized a decentralized polity and self-reliant economy with the village as the base but wanted modern technology to be adapted based on Indian requirements.
- He believed in a constructive approach and exhorted to cooperate with the government if it was right and opposed fearlessly when it erred.
Literature:
- Magazines written-
- Monthly – ‘Rashtra Dharma’
- Weekly- ‘Panchajanya’
- Daily- ‘Swadesh’
- Books: Samrat Chandragupta, Jagatguru Sankaracharya, Akhand Bharat Kyon?, Bharatiya Arthniti: Vikas Ki Disha, The Two Plans: Promises, Performances, Prospects, etc.
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