Kashmir integral part of India because of Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Amit Shah
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Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that it was the movement launched by Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee that led to India retaining Kashmir and West Bengal. Speaking in Anand on Sunday on Mookerjee's birth anniversary, he said: "Without Syama Prasad, Kashmir would have never been an integral part of India." "He was the only leader who said that two prime ministers, two constitutions, two flags cannot be in the country and with that sacrificed himself for Kashmir," Shah said."The entire credit for West Bengal being with India today goes to Syama Prasad and Swami Pranabanad," Shah said. "Unhone door dristi ke swath pure Bangal main ek Andolan chalaya, our jis Bang bhang ko Lord Curzon ne kya tha usko rokne ke liye pura desh ekatrit hua tha, wohi Bangal ka bibhajan hua aur Paschim Bangal bankar woh aaj Bharat ke saath juda hua hain. Yeh Dr Shyamaprasad Mukherjee ka uplabdhi hain," (He launched a movement across entire Bengal with farsightedness and the same Bengal Partition that Lord Curzon did, against which the entire country had come together, that Bengal was divided and it is now attached to India as West Bengal today. This is the achievement of Syama Prasad Mookerjee), he added.Speaking on the completion of four years of the union cooperative ministry, Shah said the central government has taken more than 60 initiatives in the past four years. "All these initiatives are based on the five Ps -- people, PACS, platform, policy and prosperity."Shah also launched the Multi State Co-operative body, Sardar Patel Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited.
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