DEENDAYAL’S VIEWS REFLECTED ‘TRUE SECULARISM’: PRASAR CHIEF

New Delhi, Oct. 12: The views of Deendayal Upadhyaya reflected “true secularism”, but the Nehruvians and the Marxists have created a “pseudo-secular environment” in the country over the last 70 years which needs to be “corrected”, Prasar Bharati chairman A. Surya Prakash said on Thursday.

Addressing an event at Jawaharlal Nehru University here, he stressed the need to understand the vision of Upadhyaya to build a “truly modern” India.

He called for “correcting” the “historical injustice” meted out to the Hindutva icon by the Marxists and the Nehruvians.

“Deendayalji had sown the seeds for a new India. His ideas were completely ignored for decades because Nehruvians and Marxists who have a dominant role in our educational and academic system did not want to give him his due. But to truly build a modern India, we need to understand his vision,” he said.

He was addressing the 3rd Dr K.R. Narayanan Memorial Lecture on “Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism”. Prakash said those who had not read Upadhyaya were propagating “falsehood” that he had favoured a “Hindu state”.