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• The Ministry of Culture announced a two-year official commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
About
• Initially a member of the Indian National Congress; later joined the Hindu Mahasabha in the 1930s.
• He became the youngest Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University at age 33 in 1934.
• He served as Finance Minister of Bengal (1941–42) in the Fazlul Haq ministry.
• He founded the English daily "The Nationalist" and the Bengali journal "Bang Wani".
• Founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh: In 1951, founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the ideological predecessor of today’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
About
• Initially a member of the Indian National Congress; later joined the Hindu Mahasabha in the 1930s.
• He became the youngest Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University at age 33 in 1934.
• He served as Finance Minister of Bengal (1941–42) in the Fazlul Haq ministry.
• He founded the English daily "The Nationalist" and the Bengali journal "Bang Wani".
• Founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh: In 1951, founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the ideological predecessor of today’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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