Deendayal Upadhyaya, who passed away on 11 February
1968, was an Indian politician and thinker of RSS ideology, 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. He died in
mysterious circumstances; his body was found on 11 February 1968 on a railway
track near Mughalsarai Junction railway station. The railway station was later
renamed in his honour in 2018, 50 years after his death.
