Prabhat Jha
Deendayalji believed that first the attitude of the people has to be awakened. They have to stand on their own base through their creativity. Self-reliance is the first need of human. Can one be self-respecting without self-reliance? The society or country which does not have self-reliance, that country cannot get respect in the world.
One day suddenly a call came from Kedarnath Sahni ji. He invited me to his room. When I reached, he said that there would be only a few people left in the country who worked with Deendayalji, so I think from an ideological point of view, when the book is published, it should be discussed with those people and memoirs must be collected about them. On the second day I took the team of ‘Kamal Sandesh’ and reached his room. All the team members understood his conceptual vision first. Sahniji tried to keep names from across the country who had worked with Deendayalji over the years. Then we had a meeting and decided to take up this work on a war footing. We decided that the name of this book of memoirs would be ‘Ajatshatru’.
The memoirs of Atalji, Advaniji and Nanaji Deshmukh are notable among the memoirs for that book. Atalji has written in his memoirs that Pandit Deendayalji’s life was a devoted life. He had offered every particle of the body and every moment of life at the feet of the god of the nation. The whole country was his home, the whole society was his family. He had only one dream in his eyes, only one vow of his life. Politics was a means for him, not an end. It was the path, not the destination. He wanted spiritualization of politics.
Deendayalji wanted to build a brighter future by taking inspiration from India’s bright past. His beliefs drew from the roots of centuries-old renewable national life, but he was not orthodox. To build the future, he had taken the imagination of making India a prosperous modern nation. They did not agree to follow the tied path. Therefore, he developed such a form of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which carries with it the glory of the past and which is determined to face the challenges of tomorrow.
No position ever fascinated Deendayalji. He was not a Member of Parliament, but a producer of Members of Parliament. He never wanted the position. With great difficulty, he took over as the President of the Jana Sangh. The Calicut session in 1967 under his presidency concluded with great enthusiasm and success. People of the country and abroad said that Jana Sangh has taken a new form in Calicut.
From what LK Advaniji told, it seems that if Deendayalji had accepted Advaniji’s words, then his suspicious death would not have happened at that time. Advaniji often used to say that Deendayalji we give you a steno. He will be with you. If you ask him in the train also, he will keep on writing. Then one or the other person should stay with you. We will all make arrangements. Even before when he had left Delhi for Mughalsarai, when Advani had gone to meet him, he had made the same request. But he said ‘No brother, I do my work myself and I will also do my writing.’ Hopefully! Deendayalji would have accepted his point.
Nanaji Deshmukh has written in his memoirs that not only every episode of Deendayalji’s life, but every moment of life has been inspiring. One morning Deendayalji went to the market with Nanaji Deshmukh to buy vegetables. Took vegetables for two paise. On returning home, Deendayalji suddenly stopped. He had one hand in his pocket, he said, ‘Nana, a big mess has happened.… I had four paise in my pocket, one of them was false. I have given that money to that vegetable seller. Both the money left in my pocket is good. Let’s give him the right money.
A criminal-like expression descended on Deendayalji’s face. Both reached back to the vegetable seller. When she told the reality, she started saying, ‘Who will find your bad money? Go what you have given, you have given it.’ But Deendayalji did not agree. He found his smooth mangled coin from that old woman’s pile of money. In return, he gave another good money from his pocket to the old lady. Then somewhere a sense of satisfaction emerged on his face.
Nanaji Deshmukh used to say that India is a very big country. Here less land, more people. The country will benefit only by employing more people. Today, if institutions doing creative work like Deendayal Research Institute are set up in every district of the country, then the country will not only be financially independent, but the country’s self-reliance will increase and in the world we can raise the head of Mother India with self-respect. Will be The day this starts to happen, then we will be able to make successful Pandit Deendayalji’s statement that ‘the development of the last person standing at the last end of the society should be the benchmark for the development of my country’.
Deendayalji believed that this country will not prosper unless we make the people of the village educated, prosperous and capable. India’s development is not possible without it. Their feet are torn, will not try to fill them, they do not have enough clothes, arrangements have to be made to cover their bodies. Their children have to be provided nutritious food while protecting them from malnutrition. will not provide gainful employment to each of them. There will be no arrangement of accommodation for them, they will not be able to provide humanitarian facilities, till then India will not be well. If we can do this, then India will develop and the soul of India will get peace.
Deendayalji believed that first the attitude of the people has to be awakened. They have to stand on their own base through their creativity. Self-reliance is the first need of human. Can one be self-respecting without self-reliance? The society or country which does not have self-reliance, that country cannot get respect in the world. The country became independent. We got freedom. We should have created an atmosphere of independence in every village. We got freedom because we became self-respecting citizens of a free nation. This was Deendayalji’s aspiration for the individual, the family and the country.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, may not have worked with Deendayalji, but through his schemes, he has started the work of eradicating poverty by considering the person standing in the last line of the society as the basis. Atal ji started in the direction of providing basic facilities to the underprivileged people of the country, pic.twitter.com/MTUrPcR1VY
— ANI (@ANI) August 22, 2021
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji is taking it forward.
Skill India Mission, Accessible India Campaign, Mudra Yojana, Sanitation, Har Ghar Jal, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Swamitva Yojana, Prime Minister-Svanidhi Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, Jan Aushadhi Kendra, Ujjwala Yojana, Ujala Yojana, More than a hundred including New Roshni, Udaan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Kusum Yojana, Motherhood Vandana Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (rural and urban), Karmayogi Maandhan Yojana, Prime Minister Atal Pension Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan, Antyodaya Anna Yojana, Self-reliant India Employment Scheme There are public welfare schemes, through which Deendayalji’s dream is being realized.
(The writer is former National Vice President of BJP)
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