Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Union Minister Jitendra Singh paid tribute to Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee on his birth anniversary on July 6. He described the region of Jammu and Kashmir as Shyama's "sacrificial land". Prasad Mukherjee.

Jitendra Singh said, "Today the entire country, especially the Bharatiya Janata Party, celebrates this day in the memory of Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee. This is the area of ​​the country which can be described as the 'land of sacrifice' of Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Is." ANI.

Singh said, "...I said this in Parliament on August 5, when Article 370 was abrogated. If Mukherjee were alive today, he would have said in his inimitable style, 'Go and tell the world that Modi has abrogated Article 370. Article 370 has been abrogated." ,

Underscoring the importance of Jammu and Kashmir for the BJP, he further said, "You can imagine how much importance Jammu and Kashmir has for the BJP. It is here that he made the demand for full inclusion of Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Union." Had called." Later it became the aspirational spirit of the then Bharatiya Jana Sangh."

"The entire country, especially the BJP cadre, watches the organization's activities in this part of the country with great keenness because this is where the BJP was actually born," he said.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the ideological parent organization of BJP. He also served as the Minister of Industries and Supplies in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

According to the official website of the BJP, Mukherjee resigned from the Cabinet on April 6, 1950 over the Delhi Pact issue with Liaquat Ali Khan. Later, on October 21, 1951, Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Delhi and became its first. chairman.

Mukherjee visited Kashmir in 1953 and was arrested on 11 May. He died while under house arrest on June 23, 1953.