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08/07/22 05:25 AM IST

Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee birth anniversary

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  • Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah has paid tributes to Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee on his birth anniversary. 
Shayam Parsad Mukherjee
  • Shyama Prasad Mukherjee is an example of great leadership and political milestone. He was born on July 6, 1901. He was the independent India’s first Minister of Industry and Supply and founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
  • Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was born in a Bengali family on 6th July 1901. His father Ashutosh Mukherjee was a judge of the Calcutta High Court.
  • He started his initial education in Bhawanipur’s Mitra Institution in 1906. He passed his matriculation exam and was admitted to Presidency College.
  • He stood seventeenth in the Inter-Arts Examination in 1916 and graduated in English, securing the first position in first class in 1921.
  • He lost his father in 1924, the same year he enrolled as an advocate in Calcutta High Court.
  • At the age of 33, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee became the youngest vice-chancellor of Calcutta University in 1934.
  • After he left the Indian National Congress due to difference of opinion with the then-Prime Minister Dr Jawaharlal Nehru on Jammu and Kashmir issues, he co- founded Janata Party in the year 1977-1979, which later on became the Bharatiya Janata Party.
  • Shyama Prasad Mukherjee died after 40 days of being arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir State police for entering the state without permit. He passed away in jail under mysterious circumstances.
      Source- PIB 

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