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Union Home Minister Amit Shah commenced his two-day tour of Jammu and Kashmir by paying tributes to Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder and BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mukherjee on his death anniversary. Soon after his arrival in the city, Shah drove to the BJP headquarters at Trikuta Nagar and joined party leaders, including Union Minister Jitendra Singh and J-K unit president Ravinder Raina, to pay homage to Mukherjee.
#WATCH | Union Home Minister Amit Shah pays tribute to Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee on his death anniversary, at the BJP office in Jammu pic.twitter.com/ikpEUXP90c
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
Mukherjee, who strongly opposed the now-scrapped Article 370 that provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir, died under mysterious circumstances on this day in 1953, shortly after his arrest in Jammu and Kashmir following his agitation for “Ek desh mein do vidhan, do pradhan aur do nishan nahi chalenge” (A single country cannot have two constitutions, two prime ministers, and two national emblems).
Shah garlanded the statue of the Jana Sangh founder installed at the BJP headquarters amid chants of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee Ji Amar Rahe”.
