Doordarshi Party

Doordarshi Party, a political party in India. DP was founded in 1980 by the Baba Jai Gurudev. The political base of DP was a was social reform and spiritual upliftment. DP never made any political breakthrough, and in 1997 it stopped engaging in electoral politics.

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Role of Baba Jai gurudev

There are no evidences to show Baba Jai gurudev's direct political involvement but evidences suggest that he wanted to clean the existing political system. He launched a political outfit, Doordarshi Party (DDP) established on March 24, 1980 at Ahmedabad, with a manifesto of social and spiritual upliftment.

Mandatory for Doordarshi candidate

It was a mandate for all the candidates that they will follow pure vegetarian and Non-Alcoholic food habits & will refrain from intake of Non-Vegetarian food, liquor & eggs. The mandate was based on the fact that Vegetarian food has more sattvic (signifying positive) qualities than Non-vegetarian food while Non-vegetarian food has more Tamasic (slow or passive) qualities than Vegetarian food.

Doordarshi Party manifesto

Few of the agenda items of Doordarshi Party are as follows:

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