Well-known thinker of right-wing ideology, philosopher and co-founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party), Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya was born on this day in 1916 in Mathura.
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya came into contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) when he was pursuing his graduation, and he became an RSS pracharak.
However, before becoming a pracharak, he was trained in RSS education in 1939 and 1942 and only after the training, he was made a pracharak.
He teamed up with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and the foundation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was laid in the year 1951.
Deendayal was then inducted into the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. He was made the general secretary of the UP unit. He later became the national general secretary of the BJS, and after Mukherjee’s death in 1951, shaped the principles and ideology of BJS till 1968.
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