Syama Prasad Mookerjee Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi Pays Tributes to BJP's Founding Ideologue on His Jayanti, Says He Dedicated His Life to Making of a Strong India

In a tweet, Modi described Mookerjee, a minister in the independent India's first government, as a great nationalist thinker and educationist who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Syama Prasad Mookerjee Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi Pays Tributes to BJP's Founding Ideologue on His Jayanti, Says He Dedicated His Life to Making of a Strong India
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New Delhi, July 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his tributes to BJP's founding ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his birth anniversary, saying he dedicated his life to the making of a strong India.

In a tweet, Modi described Mookerjee, a minister in the independent India's first government, as a great nationalist thinker and educationist who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner to the Bharatiya Janata Party. PV Narasimha Rao Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi, Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge Pay Tributes to Former Prime Minister.

His ideals and principles will inspire every generation in the country, he said.

Born in 1901 in Calcutta, now Kolkata, Mookerjee was a well-known academician who made a mark as a politician in Bengal in the undivided India. Morarji Desai Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi Pays Tribute to India’s First Non-Congress Prime Minister.

An early champion of repealing Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, he joined hands with the RSS to launch Jana Sangh in 1951 and is counted, along with Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, as one of the ideological beacon for the BJP.

(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

New Delhi, July 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his tributes to BJP's founding ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his birth anniversary, saying he dedicated his life to the making of a strong India.

In a tweet, Modi described Mookerjee, a minister in the independent India's first government, as a great nationalist thinker and educationist who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner to the Bharatiya Janata Party. PV Narasimha Rao Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi, Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge Pay Tributes to Former Prime Minister.

His ideals and principles will inspire every generation in the country, he said.

Born in 1901 in Calcutta, now Kolkata, Mookerjee was a well-known academician who made a mark as a politician in Bengal in the undivided India. Morarji Desai Birth Anniversary 2023: PM Narendra Modi Pays Tribute to India’s First Non-Congress Prime Minister.

An early champion of repealing Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, he joined hands with the RSS to launch Jana Sangh in 1951 and is counted, along with Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, as one of the ideological beacon for the BJP.

(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

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