The almost 50-year quest for changing the name of
Mughalsarai Junction to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, after the RSS thinker and Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder whose body was found on one of its platforms way back in 1968, would finally end on Sunday on a positive note.
The RSS and its frontal organizations have been mentioning the township as DDU Nagar instead of Mughalsarai in their records since 1970 after Upadhyay's mysterious death at Mughalsarai railway station on February 11, 1968.
Mughalsarai became Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar on September 12, 2017.
Later, the UP government notified Mughalsarai railway station as Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction on June 4 and the new name will be formally changed on Sunday.
The formal renaming of the junction has made local RSS functionaries jubilant. "Upadhyay ji is finally getting the respect and name he deserved. His name will be etched in history," said RSS zila vyavastha pramukh Shambhu Nath Gupta.
"The GRP had kept Upadhyaya's body as unidentified until then RSS Nagar Sangh Chalak late Gurubaksh Kapahi identified it. When GRP men recovered a bag containing khaki half-pant, white shirt, black cap, a kurta pyjama and some other items, then station superintendent Vrindavan Chand Dutta realised that the deceased was associated with RSS and called Kapahi for identification. Kapahi immediately recognized the body as that of Upadhyay and broke into tears," Gupta said while recalling the incident.
"RSS office-bearers in Varanasi and Jan Sangh leaders in Lucknow were informed about Upadhyay's mysterious death. A case was registered in this connection and GRP arrested two thieves, who were sentenced to four-year imprisonment," Gupta added.
"When the case was disposed of in court after three years of Upadhyay's death, it was mentioned that a gang of robbers was targeting passengers in moving trains, including the one in which Upadhyay was going to Patna from Lucknow. When Upadhyay tried to stop them, they threw him out of the moving train due to which he suffered injuries and died," he said, adding that CBI too came up with similar finding in its report.
In 2016, the nephews of Upadhyay had demanded that the government should declassify the files related to Upadhyay case.
"As the mystery of his death remained unsolved, many people still consider it to be a political murder," Gupta claimed.
Ready to wear a new name
