Deen Dayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism in Modi’s Governance
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism in Modi’s Governance Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the name of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya in several of his speeches, whose Integral Humanism philosophy was adopted by the Sangh Parivar, including RSS. Modi claimed that he grew up with the ideals of Dayal Upadhyaya and his ideas inspired him to begin his political journey that culminated in his becoming the country’s head. Modi told BJP politicians that one of his aims was to aggressively promote Integral Humanism. This pleased the RSS as it felt that unlike the two past doyens of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former home minister Lal Krishna Advani — Modi would impose its principles on the country to achieve its grand objective to create a ‘New Man’ and a ‘New Society’. Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, who was a well-known RSS head, said that the ultimate aim of the institution was to create a “perfectly organised state of society” in which the ‘N