KOZHIKODE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the former Jan Sangh and the new generation leaders of BJP to fulfil the dreams of Deendayal Upadyaya, former national president of Jan Sangh. While addressing Smriti Sandhya, a gathering of former Jan Sangh leaders at Kozhikode Zamorin’s Higher Secondary School, Mr Modi said since the last two-and-a-half years, the BJP government has stood for the downtrodden, Dalit and the poor people.
Mr Modi said his agenda is to empower the last man in the last row and India should come on top of the world. He urged that each and every BJP worker should propagate the various schemes of the BJP government. “The new generation should consider the older generation as their role models. They should learn and understand the sacrifices made by the older generation,” he said.
State BJP leadership organised Smriti Sandhya to felicitate those Jan Sangh leaders who had convened at the 1967 meet where Deendayal Upadyaya was elected as the president. The RSS leaders who were locked up in jails during Emergency period also attended the meeting. Contrary to earlier announcements, veteran BJP national leaders L.K. Advani, V.K. Malhotra and Murali Manohar Joshi was unable to attend the programme after they were held up in the traffic where the public rally took place.
RSS ideologue P. Parames-hwaran, former BJP state presidents O. Rajagopal and K. Raman Pillai who had attended the 1967 summit attended the programme. Former BJP state president C.K. Padmanabhan welcomed the gathering. P. Narayanan, former Jan Sangh leader recalled the Jan Sangh conclave which had taken place almost five decades ago. Vaikkom Gopakumar who had spent the longest tenure in jail during the emergency period also recalled his ordeal.
