Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 25: To celebrate the birth anniversary of Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya, founder member of Bharatiya Jana Sangh and one of its tallest leaders, an impressive function was organized at BJP headquarters here today.
On the occasion floral tributes were paid to this great leader of the country. The function was presided over by BJP State President & MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma and others who attended it included leader of Legislative Party Ashok Khajuria, State general secretaries Ashok Kaul and Kavinder Gupta, district presidents Rajesh Gupta and Subash Jandial.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, called Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya an ideological and spiritual institution and impressed upon the participants to imbibe his teachings and ideology which would enable them to become more productive and better agents of societal engineering and change. He advised the workers to get inspiration from the life of Pt. Upadhayaya.
Ashok Khajuria said that in the current social and political uncertainty the principles and ideology of Pt. Upadhayaya holds great importance and need to be followed. “Our state is directly facing onslaught from fundamentalist and extremist elements within and outside the country due to which our responsibilities have also increased manifold’’, Pt. Upadhayaya’s espousal of all round development of man needs to be followed by all, he added.
Ashok Kaul, while elaborating on the concept of integral humanism propounded by Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya, said that it involves balance and integrated development of body, mind, intellect and soul.
Jammu East District President Rajesh Gupta and Jammu West District President Subash Jandial also remembered Panditji.
. The Proceedings of the programme were conducted by District General Secretary Jaideep Sharma.
Kavinder Gupta, Sat Sharma (C.A), Munish Sharma, Yudhvir Sethi, Chander Mohan Gupta, Gulam Ali Khatana, Lalit Moza (Adv.), Sanjiv Sharma, Chaman Lal Kanathia, Daljeet Singh, Arvind Gupta, Jaideep Sharma, Sanjay Baru, Vivek Gupta, Ayodhya Gupta, Sat Pal Choudhary, Tarseem Choudhary, Balwan Singh, Dinesh Gupta, N.D. Rajwal, Surinder Choudhary, Sanjeev Padha, Bal Khajuria, Arun Sethi, Bal Khajuria, Ajay Vaid, Tarseem Jain, Ashwani Khosla, and others also participated in the function.