India
Paying tributes to Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee on his death anniversary, BJP president Amit Shah said Sunday that it is due to his sacrifice that people from other states can travel to Jammu and Kashmir without permit and that West Bengal became a part of India.
Updated : Jun 23, 2019, 06:03 PM IST
Paying tributes to Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee on his death anniversary, BJP president Amit Shah said Sunday that it is due to his sacrifice that people from other states can travel to Jammu and Kashmir without permit and that West Bengal became a part of India.
Shah, who is also the Union home minister, went to the BJP headquarters here to pay tributes to Mukherjee and asserted that his agitation for Jammu and Kashmir's complete integration with the country was independent India's first nationalist stir.
On the occasion, BJP working president JP Nadda said the party remains committed to Mukherjee's ideals and also referred to his death under "mysterious circumstances", slamming the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for not ordering a probe.
भारत के पुनर्निर्माण के उद्देश्य से डॉ. मुखर्जी ने जनसंघ की स्थापना की। आज यदि हम जम्मू-कश्मीर में बिना परमिट के जा सकते हैं और पश्चिम बंगाल भारत का अभिन्न अंग है तो उसके पीछे डॉ. मुखर्जी जी का बलिदान है।
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) June 23, 2019
ऐसे अभिजात देशभक्त के बलिदान दिवस पर उनके चरणों में कोटि-कोटि वंदन
He had died in 1953 in Srinagar in police custody after he had entered the northern state, defying the requirement for obtaining a permit for doing so.
The then government had said he had died due to medical reasons after his health conditions deteriorated in custody. The Jana Sangh, the precursor to BJP, had suspected a foul play and sought a probe.