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WB govt to observe Syama Prasad’s death anniversary


Published : 22 Jun 2019 08:27 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 12:44 AM

As part of its Bangla sub-nationalism, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led government has decided to observe the death anniversary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder and BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee on today. Bharatiya Jana Sangh is the previous incarnation of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
State Minister of Power and Non-conventional Energy Sovandeb Chattopadhyay is scheduled to offer tribute to Mookerjee's bust at Keoratala crematorium in the southern part of the city, sources in Trinamool Congress said.

Last year, too, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government had remembered Mookerjee, considered a great visionary and a patriot, on his 65th death anniversary. Incidentally, the BJP ideologue's bust at the crematoium was vandalised by a group of Left radicals in 2018. The state government replaced the damaged bust with a bronze one and arrested four persons in connection with that incident.

Those arrested had admitted that the bust was vandalized in protest against the desecration of two statues of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Tripura.