After more than five decades its founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee gave an explanation for not allowing two constitutions, two prime ministers and two flags in one nation, the Bharatiya Janata Party ticked the box.
However, an issue related to Mookerjee which is still pending, a demand is raised from time to time by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological patron of the BJP to investigate his death while he was imprisoned in Jammu and Kashmir. .
After the founder of the Jana Sangh, the BJP’s forerunner died in a cell in Jammu and Kashmir, he was forcibly detained for entering the state, defying the then law mandating an Indian to enter Kashmir. It was done.
On the death anniversary of Mookerjee on Tuesday, the BJP brass paid tribute to the person who assigned the party the task of Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir its special state status.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and a host of other senior leaders paid tribute to Mukherjee.
Reading Section 3, which created Article 35A, which defined the State Legislature to give special rights and privileges to “permanent residents”, so that they are counted among the greatest achievements of the Narendra Modi government.
However, an inquiry was not mentioned in the tribute.
On his death anniversary last year, the leaders underlined how he made his sacrifice for the unity of the country.
The then newly appointed executive chairman; JP Nadda also said that while the entire country demanded an inquiry into Mukherjee’s death, former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru “did not order an inquiry”.
“History is a witness to this fact. Dr. Mookerji’s sacrifice will never go in vain, BJP is committed to this cause.
Similar statements were repeated on 6 July on the birth anniversary of Mookerji.
A month later on August 5, the House of Elders in Parliament passed a landmark law – the re-organization of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories and by reading the controversial Article 370.
10 months after the repeal of Article 370, the BJP has renamed the Chenani-Nashri tunnel, India’s longest tunnel that connects Kashmir with Jammu after Mookerjee, but there is no indication that the government will begin an inquiry into his death Will do.
The RSS, which has consistently exposed the need to investigate Mookerjee’s death, is not giving up this demand.
“In 2004, (former PM) Atal Bihar Vajpayee said that there is a conspiracy which should be investigated. We hope that the government will investigate and put the issue once and for all. A senior RSS official said on Tuesday.
In 2004, Vajpayee sparked a controversy with his statement that Mookerjee’s death was part of “a conspiracy” between the then Jawaharlal Nehru-led central government and the Jammu and Kashmir government.
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