LIVE: Leaders pay tribute to Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya on birth anniversary

11:50 September 25

BJP national president JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar & Dr Harsh Vardhan pay tribute to Jana Sangh leader Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya and Syama Prasad Mookerjee at party HQ, on the birth anniversary of Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya today.

10:29 September 25

PM Modi pays tribute to Deendayal Upadhyaya

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh Deendayal Upadhyaya on Friday.

Taking to his twitter handle he said that he will be addressing BJP workers from all over India at 11 AM.

10:17 September 25

BJP president to address Deendayal Upadhyay's birth anniversary function

Jaipur: BJP national president JP Nadda will address Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay's 104th birth anniversary celebrations in Jaipur on Friday through video conference.

The ceremony will be held at the national memorial site at Dhankya railway station. The ceremony, which will start at 5 pm, will be broadcast live on various social media platforms.

Along with Nadda, Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjunram Meghwal and Kailash Chaudhary will also be present for the ceremony, he added. 

09:19 September 25

Amit Shah pays tributes to Deendayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid tributes on the occasion of birth anniversary of the founder of Jana Sangh Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya of Friday, saying his life is an example of social harmony and patriotism.

"The master of Indian politics, rich in versatility and founder of Jana Sangh Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Ji struggled throughout his life for the protection and conservation of India's culture and values. With ideas of integral Humanism and Antyodaya, he gave a progressive ideology to the nation," Shah said in a tweet (roughly translated from Hindi).

"As an excellent organiser, Deen Dayal ji laid the foundation of alternative politics which is today doing the work of bringing poor, deprived and exploited class in the mainstream of development. His life is an example of social harmony and patriotism. I bow to such great patriot on the occasion of his birth anniversary," the Union Home Minister said.

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay was born on September 25, 1916, in Mathura district. He was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party. He became president of the Jana Sangh in December 1967.