Syama Prasad Mookerjee to be included in Bengal texbooks, says BJP MP Rahul Sinha

Former Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party state president and MP Rahul Sinha on Sunday said Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s work and his role in creating the state of West Bengal will be included in school textbooks, soon.

Sinha made this statement a day ahead of Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary, which the BJP has planned to celebrate with much fanfare, for the first time after coming to power in the state.

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The Rajya Sabha MP was accompanied by Bardhaman Dakshin MLA Moumita Biswas Misra at the BJP district office in Bardhaman.

Sinha alleged that the Congress, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) had “concealed” Bengal’s real history. He said a state committee led by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will mark Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary with year-long programmes in schools and colleges.

On Monday, on the occassion of his birth anniversary, a statue of Mookerjee will be inaugurated in front of Bardhaman’s historic Curzon Gate, Mishra said.

Sinha also targeted the previous TMC government over corruption and alegedly facilitating “infiltration” through the Bengal-Bangladesh border. Speaking about the ‘Messi fiasco’, involving Aroop Biswas, who seems to have now joined the rebel TMC camp, he said that law must take its own course.

Commenting on the recent exodus of leaders from the Mamata Banerjee camp of the TMC, Sinha said, “It’s shocking to see so many leaders deserting her party. She should retire from politics, or else join the Congress, or the CPI-M, if they accept her.”