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The Congress Party had never honoured such patriots, he said in the context of the
Government boycott of Dr. Mookerjee's birth anniversary celebration in the Central Hall
of Parliament House earlier in the day and recalled the condemnable treatment meted
out to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
He recalled in this connection that in alive telecast sometime ago, Doordarshan had
deleted the portion of his speech in which he had paid tributes to Subhash Chandra Bose.
Atalji severely condemned the Congress attitude towards the RSS ideology and said it
was a "poisonous mindset" which everyone had to fight out.
Paying handsome tributes to Dr. Mookerjee, Atalji said that one could describe him as
"born in Bengal but sacrificed his life in Kashmir".
He stressed the uniqueness of this sacrifice for strengthening the bond between all
regions of the country and said that this agitation for integrating Kashmir with the rest of
India was not in pursuit of any political gain since no elections were due then. The
Bharatiya Jana Sangh too was born only recently then. The agitation, Atalji stressed, was
aimed at preventing further vivisection of the country.
Atalji recalled that the during the (Praja Parishad) agitation, young men with the Indian
national flags in their hands used to enter Jammu and Kashmir territory and some of
them were even killed in police firing. This agitation and the philosophy behind it had
nothing to do with politics, Atalji stressed.
Earlier, Shri L.K. Advani, leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said that the Home
Minister Shivraj Patil's statement justifying the removal of the four Governors was totally
unacceptable and against the spirit of the Constitution.
He said one's loyalty should be to the Constitution of India while on ideologies people
professed could be different. "We will never accept the Congress stand on ideologies", he
stressed.
In this connection, Advaniji referred to the inclusion of Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee and
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Union Council of Ministers headed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
on August 15, 1947. Dr. Ambedkar and Dr. Mookerjee were bitter critics of the Congress,
yet they were included at the instance of Gandhiji. Dr. Ambedkar was entrusted with the
task of framing the Constitution while Dr. Mookerjee was allotted the industry portfolio in
view of the fact that there were hardly any industries in India except textiles at that
time. Dr. Mookerjee had laid the foundation of what are called the public sector
undertakings, he said.
Shri Advani also said that Mahatma Gandhi had felt that someone with a Hindu mindset
should be a member of the new Government in 1947 and hence had proposed the name
of Dr. Mookerjee, then president of the Hindu Mahasabha. Of him, Shri Advani said,
Gandhiji had said that "while Sardar Patel is a Congressmen with a Hindu mind, Dr.
Mookerjee is a Hindu leader with a Congress mindset".
BJP president M. Venkaiah Naidu too paid handsome tributes to Dr. Mookerjee and called
upon everyone to strengthen the Trust which would expand its activities now along with
building its headquarters.
Among the large gathering was present Shri Kailashpati Mishra, who was asked to
relinquish governorship of Gujarat by the Home Minister.
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