GORAKHPUR, June 28 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were founded to protect the country's unity and integrity rather than to attain power.

He also said that politics devoid of values and ideology inevitably leads to decline, asserting that the BJP's rise from winning just two Lok Sabha seats in 1984 to governing at the Centre and in 21 states and becoming the world's largest political organisation is rooted in ideology.

Addressing the inaugural session of the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Prashikshan Maha Abhiyan-2026 in Gorakhpur, Adityanath said Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee resigned from Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet in protest against what...