25 April 2015

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya 3.5.1978

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and political scientist. He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party. A revered icon of Integral Humanism, he was an ideologue and a guiding force for an alternative model of governance and politics.

He was assassinated on 11 February 1968 at Mughalsarai in UP, while travelling in a train.

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