The Trust was formed in 14 April 2006, in the name of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya, when Raje was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
Well entrenched in the philosophy of Vedas, Upanishads and Gita, he has followed in detail the thoughts and writings of Western thinkers like Karl Marx and Arnold Toynbee and the Indian seers like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sree Narayana Guru, Mahatma Gandhi and Deendayal Upadhyaya.