RSS:
Celebrating Deendayal Upadhyay’s birthday is fine but tell the Nation who
murdered him!
Newspapers in
India today (September 25, 2026) are flooded with birthday celebratory
advertisements for Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay issued by RSS-BJP rulers. Upadhyay
was a senior ideologue of RSS who also was the president of Bharatiya Jana
Sangh (the first all-India political organization created by RSS) and was in line
for 3rd Supremo of RSS. His dead body was found at Mughal Sarai
Junction (now Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction) on February 1, 1968. The
then RSS leading leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpai and Nana Deshmukh declared
that Communist got him murdered by hiring a thief for the job.
["Our
guiding light": BJP leaders pay tribute to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya on
birth anniversary, ANI, 25-09-2026. Link:
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/our-guiding-light-bjp-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pandit-deendayal-upadhyaya-on-birth-anniversary20260925100418/]
It is fine that RSS-BJP are celebrating Upadhyay’s 109th
birthday with great pomp and show. But this lot must tell the Nation who killed
Upadhyay.
A senior ideologue of RSS, Balraj Madhok, RSS whole-timer
(Pracharak) since 1942 who was also the in-charge of Jammu & Kashmir State
in pre-Partition days, edited the English organ of the RSS, Organizer,
founded student organization of the RSS, ABVP, in 1948, and teamed up with
Shyama Prasad Mukherji in establishing the first all-India political wing of
the RSS, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) in 1951, was elected to the Lower House of
the Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha, twice (1961 & 1967) from Delhi, shared
horrendous details of an inside conspiracy in his autobiography [Zindagi Ka
Safar –3: Deendayal Upadhyay Ki Hatya Se Indira Gandhi Ki Hatya Tak
(Journey of Life-3: From the Murder of Deendayal Upadhyay to the Murder of
Indira Gandhi), Dinman Prakashan, Delhi, 2003] behind murder of Upadhyay in
which leading leaders of the then RSS were involved.
He stated: "One thing is clear. Behind the murder of
Deendayal Upadhyay was neither the hand of Communists nor of any thief...He was
killed by a hired assassin. But conspirators who sponsored this killing were
those self-seekers and leaders with a criminal bent of mind of Sangh-Jan
Sangh." (p. 22)
The autobiography went to tell of a concerted attempt by the
killers to keep facts under wraps: “Though those jealous self-seekers to
whom the finger of suspicion points, in conspiring the murder of Deendayal
Upadhyay, are benefitting by his name, but do not want truth of his murder to
come out. However, as a student of history I believe that the blood of
Deendayal Upadhyay will be avenged, history will do justice to him and those
who conspired to kill him will be subjected to a curse.” (p. 15)
This autobiography written by a top swayamsevak was absolutely
non-hesitant in pointing fingers towards Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nana Deshmukh
as main conspirators in the murder of Deendayal Upadhyay, the then president of
BJS. He categorically stated: “Information gathered from difference sources
points the fingers of suspicion in the murder of Deendayal Upadhyay towards
them.” (p. 23)
According to the autobiography, Deendayal Upadhyay was assassinated
by those who were kept out of leading positions of the BJS by Deendayal
Upadhyay as president. It is to be noted here that Deendayal Upadhyay after
taking over presidentship of BJS from Balraj Madhok in December 1967, had kept
out both Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nana Deshmukh from important posts. According
to Madhok, Upadhyay was murdered because, “he was constantly striving that
ill-reputed people should get no promotion in BJS, so that reputation of the
organisation is not tarnished. For this reason, some characterless
self-seeking people were finding him a stumbling block in their path of
self-seeking fulfillment.” (p. 14)
RSS must tell the Nation on Upadhyay’s 109th birth
anniversary how he was assassinated and on whose orders?
Shamsul Islam
25-09-2026
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