Prime Minister Narendra Modi is continuing on the tradition of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, who was devoted to India, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday, as he paid floral tribute to the Bharatiya Janata Sangh founder on his birth anniversary. CM Yogi said that the ideology of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee towards India is being implemented effectively under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The long-standing issue of Article 370, which had been in effect since 1952-1953, was abolished by Prime Minister Modi on August 5, 2019, and the democratic process was advanced in Jammu and Kashmir. Today, Jammu and Kashmir is touching new heights of development,” he added.
“The country will always remember the sacrifices made by Dr. Mukherjee for the unity and integrity of India. He was a guiding light for India’s industrial and food policies,” he added.
He further said that when India’s first government after independence led by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru adopted “appeasement” as a policy, Dr Mukherjee resigned from the cabinet and formed Jan Sangh.
“The differences between Mukherjee and Pt Jawaharlal Nehru also came to the fore when the then Nehru government attempted to play havoc with the unity and security of the country by forcibly adding Article 370 to the Indian Constitution,” the UP CM said, and added, “At that time, he strongly opposed it and gave the slogan of ‘Ek desh mein do Pradhan, do Vidhan aur do Nishan nahin challenge (A single country can’t have two Prime Ministers, two constitutions, and two national emblems).”
Mukherjee, who was a politician, barrister, and academician, served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Bharatiya Jana Sangh, founded in 1951, is the ideological parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
According to the BJP’s official website, on the issue of the Delhi pact with Likayat Ali Khan, Mukherjee resigned from the Cabinet on April 6, 1950.