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TopicSyama Prasad Mookerjee

Topic: Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Jihad against Hindus was declared in newspaper columns: SP Mookerjee on Great Calcutta Killings

On 20 September 1946, Hindu Mahasabha leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee delivered a speech in the Bengal Legislative Assembly condemning the violence during the Great Calcutta Killings. Here's an excerpt from the speech.

Bengal had a real chance at Hindu-Muslim unity before Partition. It was Syama-Huq govt

Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s coalition government with AK Fazlul Huq in undivided Bengal was a sincere attempt to dilute the hate-filled politics of the Muslim League.

BJP’s ‘Ab Ki Baar 400 Paar’ push isn’t a new idea. It’s a political pledge from 73 years ago

‘Ab Ki Baar 400 Paar’ may have its genesis in a heated debate between Jawaharlal Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, when the latter warned Nehru he would crush his 'crushing mentality'.

‘Peace-lovers to what extent?’ Syama Prasad Mookerjee on why India could lose Kashmir

In his speech on 7 August 1952 in Lok Sabha, Mookerjee spoke about the fear that the Kashmir policy with regard to UN and Article 370 'may lead to the 'Balkanisation' of India'.

Dhankhar pays tribute to SP Mookerjee in Jammu speech, says Ambedkar ‘declined to draft Article 370’

Region's integration into the national mainstream has paved way for investments, development & improved governance, the vice-president asserts.

How Nehru added ‘conditions apply’ to Article 19(1)(a) & India lost way to gates of freedom

The 16-day freedom of speech debate in Parliament pitted Jawaharlal Nehru against Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Their echoes continue to bedevil and bruise India today.

How SP Mookerjee took on Nehru in one of the fiercest & finest parliamentary duels in India

The opposition’s debate over the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill in 1951 was a far cry from the kind of brawling that led to 12 RS members being suspended from Parliament.

The ghosts of Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee are back. Modi’s India is reliving 1951

In 'Nehru: The Debates that Defined India', Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain highlight the former PM's encounters with his contemporaries.

BJP’s present politics different from what Syama Prasad espoused, Jana Sangh founder’s nephew says

In an interview with ThePrint, Chittatosh Mookerjee says much was expected of the BJP in Bengal but they have not fulfilled expectations.

Revive jobs in Bengal, promote phuchka, push tourism — report by BJP think tank ahead of polls

Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation has come up with a report suggesting that BJP’s focus should be on two most important job-creating sectors — knowledge and tourism. 

On Camera

America imagines Asim Munir is the cure to jihadism. He is the disease

Less than an hour earlier, William Putscher had been lunching on a hot dog by the poolside, in the congenial environment of the American...

Paul John Whisky, Malhar Gin win top honours at Soho India Wine & Spirits Awards 2025

Goa: Creators of the Paul John Indian Single Malt Whisky and Malhar India Craft Gin, John Distilleries registered yet another stellar showing at the...

Munir threatens India, again; accuses Delhi of ‘using’ TTP, asks Afghan Taliban to ‘rein in proxies’

Speaking at Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad’s Kakul, Field Marshal Munir said it is ‘disconcerting that Afghan soil is being used for terrorism in Pakistan’.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.