Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 11: On the death anniversary of party ideologue Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Jammu and Kashmir BJP held “Samarpan Diwas” programmes on all Mandals across the region.
BJP activists voluntarily contributed money and pledged to keep transparency & cleanliness in their organizational tasks and their accounts in running the activities of the party on “Samarpan Diwas”.
J&K BJP President Ravinder Raina, accompanied by MP (Lok Sabha) Jugal Kishore Sharma and party General Secretary (Org) Ashok Kaul addressed the main programme in this regard, organized at party headquarter, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.
Ravinder Raina, while paying tributes , threw light on the life of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay and narrated number of hardships faced by him as a student, his simple life and rising to the posts of national general secretary and National President of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. The life of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay has been a source of inspiration for us, he said and added that the economic philosophy of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay was highly appreciated even by the then Governments.
“He wished for a country where there is no discrimination or exploitation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working on the philosophy of Antyodaya,” he said and added that a number of welfare schemes have been launched aimed at ending the social and economic inequality in the society by reaching the last man.
Jugal Kishore Sharma said that the initiatives taken by PM Narendra Modi led Government to ensure that there is no disparity or discrimination with poor, downtrodden people, women etc are in line with the Antodya.
Ashok Kaul spoke in detail on the life and values of Pandit Deen Dayal. He said that Pandit Ji was a proponent of an alternative model of governance and politics. “Pandit ji believed that neither Communism nor Capitalism were suitable for India and suggested political economical governance model considering creating a harmony between the extremes and considering broader perspective called Integral Humanism Theory, which was adopted by Bhartiya Jan Sangh/BJP,” Ashok Koul said, adding that Pandit ji will be respected for his good leadership, idealism and humanism for centuries to come.
Meanwhile, NC Senior Vice-President & Convener JK Minority Cell Anil Dhar, Avinash Dutta, Butti Singh (Sarpanch), Manoj Pandit Sarpanch Pulwama, Jagdish Singh Sarpanch, Rajender Kumar Panch, Baba Ram Panch, Om Prakash, Jyoti Singh, Bawa Ram, Rajinder Kumar, Mahesh Dhar Sarpanch Chakura (Pulwama), Joginder Singh Principal (Bajalta) and others joined BJP at party headquarter, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu, in the presence of J&K BJP President Ravinder Raina, Vice-President Surjit Singh Slathia, General Secretary (Org) Ashok Koul, SEM Devender Singh Rana and others.