Birth Anniversary of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee | 10 Jul 2024

Source: PIB

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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