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Birth Anniversary of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- 10 Jul 2024
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The Prime Minister recently paid tribute to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee on his birth anniversary.
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was born in a Bengali Brahmin family on the 6th July 1901, in Calcutta.
- He was an Indian politician, barrister, and academician who served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.
- He started "Bang Wani", a Bengali journal, in 1922 and The Nationalist in 1940’s.
- At the age of 33, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee became the youngest vice-chancellor of Calcutta University in 1934.
- He demanded the partition of Bengal in 1946 to prevent the inclusion of its Hindu-majority areas in a Muslim-dominated East Pakistan.
- He also opposed a failed bid for a united but independent Bengal made in 1947 by Sarat Bose, the brother of Subhas Chandra Bose, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali Muslim politician.
- He founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the predecessor of the modern-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- He died in mysterious circumstances during detention in 1953 while protesting against the special status given to Kashmir.
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