5 Rupees Birth Centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, born 1916, was the principal ideological architect of what he called "Integral Humanism" — a political philosophy he articulated in a series of 1965 lectures that became the foundational doctrine of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, forerunner to today's BJP. He died under circumstances that remain disputed: found on railway tracks near Mughal Sarai station in February 1968, officially ruled an accident, though the case was never conclusively closed. The centenary commemorative program of 2016 coincided with a significant BJP electoral resurgence, lending the issue an unmistakably political dimension beyond routine numismatic commemoration.