[10] On the evening of 10 February 1968, barely two months after he was elected president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya boarded the Sealdah Express from Lucknow to Patna.

A few hours later, his body was found near a pole a few hundred feet from the end of a platform at Mughalsarai station.

What followed was a long and involved investigation into what the Sangh and people insisted was a politically motivated murder by the ruling party.

A CBI probe initiated by ruling party called it an accident; two men confessed to pushing him out of the train in a robbery attempt but were acquitted when it was found out to be made under duress; there was no sign of struggle or injury on Upadhyay's person.

In 1992, then government of the state of Uttar Pradesh attempted to rename Mughalsarai after Deen Dayal Upadhyaya[11] However, the plan was shelved when Kalyan Singh, the chief minister was forced to resign after an outbreak of violence in the state following the Babri Masjid demolition.

It closes the distance between pit head coal and power house, finished steel product to user, food grain and fertiliser to eastern part of the country and other raw material to industries.

Because of its crucial importance, the Railway Board keeps a special watch on Mughalsarai division's operations.

[citation needed] The largest wagon repair workshop of Indian Railways is located at Mughalsarai.

[18] Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railways.