Karnataka BJP remembers Syama Prasad Mookerjee on Balidan Divas
Yeddyurappa, the state BJP president offered tributes to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of Jana Sangh, who passed away on June 23, 1953 in a mysterious manner.
Bengaluru: The Karnataka state BJP unit observed Balidan Divas at its office in Bengaluru. State BJP president BS Yeddyurappa offered flowers to the portrait of the Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who passed away mysteriously in the state of Jammu and Kashmir on this day in 1953.
Taking the occasion as an opportunity to criticise the Congress, he said, “The Congress party has meted out great injustice to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, akin to Ambedkar. In spite of Syama Prasad’s mysterious death, the Congress refused to hold a probe into it.”
The state president also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, the national president of BJP for planning to scrap Article 370.
“The PM and the BJP national president have planned to invalid Article 370. This is a laudable step. Soon, this move will be realised,” he added.
Expressing his happiness over Modi becoming the Prime Minister for the second time, the BJP state president said, “Narendra Modi has become the Prime Minister for the second consecutive time. It is due to the efforts of Syama Prasad that the BJP has become such a big an important party in the country. The credit should go to him,” he added.
Another prominent Dalit BJP leader Govind Karjol ripped the Congress saying the present members of the Congress have done nothing for the nation.
“The Congress says not even a dog from the BJP has laid down its life for the cause of the nation. How many of the present members of the existing Congress have laid down their lives for the country?” he thundered.