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Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968), known by the epithet Panditji, was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [2]
The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated as BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh [10]) was a Hindutva political party active in India. It was established on 21 October 1951 in Delhi by three founding members: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee , Balraj Madhok and Deendayal Upadhyaya .
He was one of the leaders of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Kanyakumari district. [5] In 1967, he was the Kanyakumari district president of Jana Sangh and in 1975 he was the Tamil Nadu state secretary of the party. He was also jailed during The Emergency. [4] He served as Tamil Nadu state BJP vice-president from 2016 and 2020.
With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, [6] he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951. [7] He was also the president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1943 to 1946. He was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1953 when he tried to cross the border of the state.
The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Syama Prasad Mukherjee, after he left Hindu Mahasabha to form a party as the political wing of RSS. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] After the Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party ; it ...
Balraj Madhok (बलराज मधोक; 25 February 1920 – 2 May 2016) was an Indian political activist and politician from Jammu.Originally an activist of the nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he later worked as a politician in the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS).
Jagannathrao Joshi (23 June 1920 – 15 July 1991) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was born at Nargund, Karnataka on 23 June 1920. He completed his matriculation from Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya in Pune and graduation in English Hons from Sir Parshurambhau College.
Integral humanism was a set of concepts drafted by Deendayal Upadhyaya as a political program and adopted in 1965 as the official doctrine of the Jan Sangh and later BJP. [1] The doctrine is also interpreted as ' Universal Brotherhood ', an earlier theosophist and in turn Freemason inspired phenomenon.