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News18
11-06-2025
- Business
- News18
PM Modi's Five Pledges Fulfil Deendayal's Five Suggestions
As early as 1949, Deendayal Upadhyaya articulated the need for 'economic, social, cultural as well as spiritual freedom". Within each of these dimensions, he envisioned the fulfilment of freedom and selfhood. No dimension could be overlooked in his schema for national rejuvenation through integral growth and progress. Over the past eleven years, under Narendra Modi's leadership, each of these dimensions has received significant focus and innovative action. It is pertinent to briefly examine some of these. Financial Inclusion: Financial inclusion has broadened and reinforced economic freedom, achieving unprecedented reach and impact in the last eleven years. This is manifested in the flagship Jan Dhan scheme and is evident in the 250 million people lifted out of multidimensional poverty over the past decade. In its Spring 2025 World Bank's Poverty and Equity Brief, a global poverty update, the World Bank noted a significant decline in extreme poverty in India over the past decade. This sharp decline, from 27.1% to 5.3%, has lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty. These are definitive indicators of enhanced economic freedom. India's surpassing of Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy further signifies India's resolute progress towards deepening its economic freedom, marking a decisive milestone in realising this vision.
News18
07-06-2025
- Politics
- News18
Narendra Modi Strives To Realise Deendayal Upadhyaya's Vision
Last Updated: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fundamental governance philosophy reflects Deendayal Upadhyaya's thought and vision The 60th year of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya's historic lectures that shaped the philosophy of Integral Humanism is being commemorated at a time when a BJP's Prime Minister completes 11 years in office. Narendra Modi may not have met or heard Deendayal Upadhyaya, but he has certainly emerged as one of Upadhyaya's finest exponents, manifesting the latter's aspirations and hopes through his governance vision and action. In the course of a public life that spans more than four decades, Modi must have had the opportunity to mingle with many stalwarts of the movement who were moulded and shaped by Upadhyaya. Upadhyaya, the RSS pracharak, was deputed to the newly formed Jana Sangh, as Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee's understudy in 1951. He went on to shoulder the burden of laying the foundation of the new political party for the next 15 years, emerging as one of the tallest leaders of the Nehruvian and the immediate post-Nehruvian era. Modi, an RSS pracharak, was deputed to the newly formed BJP and for the next three odd decades, toiled for the new party, at various levels, till he scripted and charted out for it a historical course that is altering India's trajectory. Deendayal Upadhyaya established the Jana Sangh as an alternate pole in Indian politics, while Modi has been successful in positioning the BJP as the pre-eminent political party in India in three decades. These three decades were characterised and dominated by coalition politics and unstable governments which were pulled in various directions under the exigencies of political demands and short-term calculations. Absent, during these three decades, was a grand narrative of where India ought to be and of how to reach that position. Narendra Modi has comprehensively altered that. He has drawn a grand narrative sculpted and chiselled by the goal of 'Viksit Bharat" and of 'Amrit Kaal." Throughout Upadhyaya's tenure as general secretary, the Jana Sangh had advocated the necessity of India going nuclear. One of the first major decisions that propelled India to the status of a major nuclear power was Vajpayee's decision to go in for the nuclear tests in May 1998. The flagship 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan', launched by Vajpayee which saw a massive grassroots focus on education especially among the most marginalised, was another governance milestone that manifested Upadhyaya's philosophy and his hopes of empowering and equipping those left out and left behind. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya delivered his four lectures at Mumbai's Ramnarain Ruia College grounds on the philosophy of Ektaama Manava Darsana on April 22-25, 1965. These lectures eventually formed the bed-rock of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and later the BJP's political philosophy and action. It was for the first time that a political party, formed after Independence, discussed, debated and articulated a political philosophy which it sought to embody and express through a political programme. The philosophy spoke of unleashing India's civilisational powers, of making her self-reliant through her own strengths, of seeing her regain her rightful place as 'Viswamitra" (a friend of the world). A power that is benign but not powerless. Upadhyaya spoke of India seeking out her own all-around progress, based on her innate strengths and experiences. This national march towards prosperity, Upadhyaya's philosophical postulates insisted, had to be equitable, no one could be left behind. In Upadhyaya's lectures one discerns the hope of ushering in a Viksit Bharat and a Samriddha Bharat. In his concluding lecture, Deendayal Upadhyaya defined the goal when he said: 'Our goal is not merely to protect the culture but to revitalise it so as to make it dynamic and in tune with times. We must ensure that our nation stands firm on this foundation and our society is enabled to live a healthy, progressive and purposeful life…" Upadhyaya spoke of creating a Bharat, which 'will enable every citizen in its fold to develop his manifold latent potentialities…" Narendra Modi, as Prime Minister, in the last eleven years has been driven by these fundamental governance parameters. PM Modi has harped on collective national prosperity and strength. To realise a healthy and purposeful living has been the key-goals of his governance action. Narendra Modi's vision of 'Garib Kalyan", his governance philosophy of reaching out to the most marginalised, his unceasing emphasis on aatmanirbharta (self-reliance), his uncompromising championing of India's national interest and of her national security, his 'Panchamrit" foreign policy, which is a shift from a powerless and defensive 'Panchsheel"-driven foreign policy, his focus on securing and developing India's borders, his concept of 'Jan Bhagidari", his fulfilling the promise of 'One Nation, One Constitution", his vision of 'Ek Bharat, Sresht Bharat", his emphasis on 'Vikaas aur Viraasat", which means development along with the preservation and dissemination of the fundamentals of our national heritage and inheritance, fundamentally and intrinsically reflect Deendayal Upadhyaya's thought and vision. The author is Chairman, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, and a member of the National Executive Committee, BJP. The views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18's views. tags : Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP deendayal upadhyaya pm narendra modi rss Location : New Delhi, India, India First Published: June 07, 2025, 11:38 IST News opinion Opinion | Narendra Modi Strives To Realise Deendayal Upadhyaya's Vision
Indian Express
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
60 years of Deendayal Upadhyaya's ‘integral humanism': BJP-linked groups line up events
To commemorate 60 years of 'integral humanism' propounded by Jana Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya, a slew of organisations linked to the BJP are set to hold a two-day conclave to discuss its contemporary relevance. Deendayal Upadhyaya had introduced the concept of integral humanism over a series of four public lectures in the 1960s, which eventually became a part of the Jana Sangh's doctrine. The conclave, which will be held from May 31 to June 1, will include several sessions that will each cover a current issue through the lens of integral humanism, also referred to as 'ekaatma maanav darshan' in the BJP-RSS circles. While Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to chair the introductory session of the conclave, Union Health Minister and BJP president J P Nadda and Vivekananda International Foundation chairperson S Gurumurthy will lead the valedictory session. Among those expected to be present at the event are Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama for the session on the economy, and Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav for a discussion on sustainable development. Abhinav Prakash, vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), will address a session on youth, and BJP national spokesperson Guru Prakash will speak on social justice and 'links' between the thoughts of Upadhyaya and B R Ambedkar. Mahesh Chandra Sharma, a BJP leader and president of Research and Development Foundation for Integral Humanism that is among the conclave's organisers, described Upadhyaya's integral humanism as 'relevant for today's challenges'. 'Deendayal ji believed that the individual and society cannot be looked upon as fragments. They are integrated. The family is the core that joins them. We need to strengthen the family system. We need to formulate a policy system that integrates the individual and society – be it in the realm of economy or education,' said Sharma, who was the editor of the 15-volume Collected Works of Deendayal Upadhyaya published in 2019. 'Today, the context and key concerns have changed, but we find aspects of his (Deendayal Upadhyaya's) thought, and of his actions as the general secretary and president of the Jana Sangh, as relevant for today's challenges. The aim of the seminar is to take to the people the continuing relevance of Upadhyaya,' said an organiser of the conclave. The BJP-linked research group Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, publishing house Prabhat Prakashan, Research and Development Foundation for Integral Humanism, and Public Policy Research Centre will jointly organise the seminar. Among various subjects to be covered during the conclave is 'Securing Bharat: From Sovereignty of Borders to Strength of Civilisation', coming against the backdrop of the current discourse on national security in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor. With the Narendra Modi government having recently announced the enumeration of caste in the forthcoming Census, one session will be on 'Legacy of Leadership – Nationalism and Social Justice'. There will also be sessions on women, education and rural development. The seminar would be part of multiple events around Upadhyaya being planned by the organisers. A 'curated collection of literature on Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya' will be on display, and books on related themes will also be released. The organisers have contacted over 500 universities for students to submit articles on Upadhyaya's thought, and the authors of the best pieces are likely to be in attendance to present their views. A website on integral humanism is also being readied so as to spread Upadhyaya's views to the younger generation. The outcome of the seminar will also be published, as per a concept note on the event. One organiser said many smaller events on Upadhyaya will be held throughout the year. In late April, some lectures on Upadhyaya were also held in Mumbai.
