Changes During The BJP Era
Around 1980, the then newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) adopted Gandhian socialism rather than the Deendayal Upadhyaya-crafted principles of integral humanism, as the party's statement of first principles. But the BJP gave an honoured place to Upadhyaya's ideological statement as well.
At its July 1985 national executive session however, integral humanism once again replaced Gandhian socialism as the BJP's philosophy. But the party's economic policy remained the same substantially.
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