THE FOUNDER OF WEST BENGAL, A MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD PATRIOT PEERLESS

THE FOUNDER OF WEST BENGAL, A MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD PATRIOT PEERLESS

The great Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee, the saviour of West Bengal, a betrayed character by Nehru and Shaikh Abdullah, and a forgotten eminence in Bengal. Sad that his fellow Bengalis so often cast calumny on him and typecast him as a vicious communal character when in truth he was a fierce nationalist committed to the safekeeping of the Hindus during those pernicious days of Partition. He has been hailed as one of the greatest Parliamentarians by the redoubtable communist leader Prof. Hiren Mukerjee and admired for his sublime oratorical powers. 

Founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangha which later metamorphosed into the Bharatiya Janata Party, Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee remains in shining memory as the intrepid warrior for the territorial solidarity of India which ultimately cost him his life amidst mysterious circumstances in Kashmir where he had trodden on sacred but forbidden land with the clarion call 'Ek desh mey do vidhān, do nishān, do pradhān nahi chalegā, nahi chalegā, nahi chalegā.' No post mortem was done on his corpse and the death, which many claimed was murder, was hushed up and sent into the chamber of unresolved episodes of history. 

We, in West Bengal, owe him a debt which we must never forget---our very existence within the Republic of India which but for him we might never have had, for the scales were heavily tilted in favour of Bengal wholly going to Pakistan. The nation paid its tribute to Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee when Narendra Modi removed Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and integrated the state Constitutionally fully and unequivocally to India, a task that he had himself undertaken but had failed to accomplish owing to the dastardly plot of his death-dealers, so it is largely believed. 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose