Palakkad: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Human resource Development Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on March 16 said his party would continue to uphold cultural nationalism as its central philosophy to safeguard the unity and integrity of the nation.

Addressing the valedictory session of the four-day state convention of the Bharatiya Yuva Jana Morcha (BJYM) in Palakkad, Dr Joshi lashed out at the Communist parties for "deluding" the people of Kerala with their "outdated" philosophy.

The Communist movement the world over was on the verge of extinction and there was no relevance for them in India as well. The Indian Communists were trying to mislead the people by distorting facts of history, he said.

Dr Joshi said the BJP-led government was about to complete five years in office, thereby bursting the myth that a non-Congress government would not be a stable one.

BJYM state president M T Ramesh presided.

PTI