Shillong, July 06: The State BJP Celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh which later became BJPat State BJP Office. The State President lighted a lamp and paid floreal tribute in his potrayed. Speeking on the occasion Mawri narrated Dr Mukherjee life.
He said that, Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sanghon 21 October 1951 in Delhi, becoming its first president. In the 1952 elections, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) won three seats in the Parliament of India, including Mukherjee’s.
He had formed the National Democratic Party within the Parliament. It consisted of 32 members of the LokSabha and 10 members of the RajyaSabha; however, it was not recognised by the speaker as an opposition party. The BJS was created with the objective of nation-building and “nationalising “inculcating Bharatiya Culture” in them. Opinion on special status of Jammu and Kashmir
Mukherjee was strongly opposed to Article 370, seeing it as a threat to national unity. He fought against it inside and outside the parliament with one of the goals of Bharatiya Jana Sangh being its abrogation. He raised his voice strongly against the provision in his LokSabha speech on 26 June 1952.
He termed the arrangements under the article as Balkanization of India and the three-nation theory of Sheikh Abdullah.] The state was granted its own flag along with a prime minister whose permission was required for anyone to enter the state.
In opposition to this, Mukherjee once said “Ekdeshmein do Vidhan, do Pradhanaur Do Nishannahi challenge. In his letter to Nehru dated 3 February 1953, he wrote that the issue of accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India should not be allowed to hang fire.
Mukherjee went to visit Kashmir in 1953 and observed a hunger strike to protest the law that prohibited Indian citizens from settling within the state and mandating that they carry ID cards. Mukherjee wanted to go to Jammu and Kashmir but, because of the prevailing permit system, he was not given permission.
He was arrested on 11 May at Lakhanpur while crossing the border into Kashmir illegally.] Although the ID card rule was revoked owing to his efforts, he died as a detainee on 23 June 1953 under mysterious circumstances.
On 5 August 2019, when Government of India proposed constitutional Amendment to repeal Article 370, many newspapers described the event as realization of Syama Prasad Mukherjee’s dream.
