Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who passed away on 23 June 1953, was an Indian
politician, barrister and academician, who served as India's first Minister for
Industry and Supply (currently known as Minister for Commerce and
Industries) in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet. After falling out
with Nehru, protesting against the Liaquat-Nehru Pact, Mukherjee resigned
from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya
Janata Party, in 1951.
He was also the president of Akhil
Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1943 to 1946. He was arrested by the Jammu
and Kashmir Police in 1953 when he tried to cross the border of the state. He
was provisionally diagnosed of a heart attack and shifted to a hospital
but died a day later. Since the Bharatiya Janata Party is the successor to
the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Mookerjee is also regarded as the founder of
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by its members.
Dr Mookerjee was inspired by the ideologies
of Swami Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha and
considered him as his guru.
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