Department of Posts has issued first stamp of new definitive series – the 11th Definitive Series on ‘Makers of India’ in denomination of Rs. 5 on Deendaya Upadhyaya. It has been reported that Stamps are available Chennai and Hyderabad from 23rd November 2015. Stamp is printed at India Security Press, Nashik Road.
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (b. 25 September 1916 – d. 11 February 1968) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and political scientist. He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner Bharatiya Janata Party. A revered icon of Integral Humanism, he was an ideologue and a guiding force for an alternative model of governance and politics.
Courtesy: Sagi Srinivas Raju, Hyderabad
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